Prescription hearing aids are a key component to caring for your hearing health. Hearing aids are no longer the “big beige bananas” that many remember of the past. Modern day hearing aid technology has improved drastically over the last decade. Hearing aids are now so discrete that most people will not even know you are wearing them. The new technology is incredibly powerful, has the intelligence to focus on specific conversations in noisy environments, and allows you to stream your cell phone or tablet directly through your hearing aids.
Combining the expertise of our audiologist with the most appropriate hearing aid for you is crucial for optimizing hearing outcomes and ensuring the best possible auditory experience. While hearing aids are advanced devices, their effectiveness relies heavily on professional guidance and personalized adjustments which is why collaboration with the audiologist is so important.
Technology Levels
Hearing aids are designed to cater to various levels of hearing loss, environments and personal preferences. The specific level of technology you choose will impact the sophistication of noise suppression within the computer chip of the hearing aid. A specific technology level is typically recommended based on someone’s lifestyle: the more active you are, the more difficult listening environments you are in, thus more background noise reduction you would ultimately desire. Our recommended hearing aids typically fall into 5 different categories.
- Dynamic: A lifestyle with frequent background noise
- Active: A lifestyle with moderate background noise
- Quiet: A lifestyle with periodic background noise
- Private: A lifestyle with occasional background noise
- Essential: A lifestyle with minimal background noise
Any level of technology combined with the expertise of our audiologists is going to help improve your hearing.