Hearing loss affects perhaps as many as 25% of the US population over the age of 65.  Perhaps as many as 1 child in 1,000 is born with some sort of hearing loss.

Our physicians will listen to your symptoms and physically examine your hearing system.  Our audiologists will then perform an audiogram to determine the type and severity of your hearing loss.

If your hearing loss requires a hearing aid, a consultation with one of our audiologists will be scheduled.  The audiologist will spend about one hour with you to determine what particular problems you are having with hearing and to demonstrate the different hearing aid sizes, styles, and models that will be appropriate for your degree of hearing loss.

In general, patients that have hearing loss in both ears will benefit from hearing aids in both ears.  The reasons for this benefit are twofold: (1) Patients with hearing aids in both ears will do better at understanding speech, especially speech in a noisy background, than with a hearing aid in just one ear; and (2) Patients with hearing aids in both ears will do better at localizing sound, making it easier for one to turn and see who is speaking to them.