Micro Digital Hearing has a reputation for being able to supply the smallest aids available with the results providing a “life changing” experience for patients. Micro Digital Hearing will undertake a thorough examination, including a full hearing test, with an audiogram being provided to your GP if required.

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“Sounds familiar”

This short checklist will help you determine whether you are experiencing specific hearing problems. The questions relate to everyday listening situations where many people - even those with only minor hearing losses - could experience difficulties hearing clearly.

Please take your time to answer the questions, perhaps together with a close friend or family member who might have commented on your hearing ability.

If you find that many of these situations “sounds familiar”, then click here to request a FREE Hearing Test and ensure you live life to the full again.

Questions

• When watching television with others, do you need to set the volume higher than they would to hear what is being said?
• Do you often need to ask people to repeat what they have said?
• Do you often feel that other people are 'mumbling' or speaking unclearly?
• Do you often have trouble understanding a conversation when there is background noise or other people are talking at the same time?
• Have your family members / colleagues / friends asked you whether you have a hearing problem?
• Do you avoid parties and social events because there is too much noise or you can't hear what people are saying?
• During conversations in a car, a restaurant, or another noisy place, do you often misunderstand what is being said?
• Do you feel stressed or tired when you have had to talk or listen for long periods?
• Do you need to sit close to the speakers at meetings, religious services, or at the dinner table in order to understand?
• Do you often experience problems hearing and understanding what other people are saying to you when you do not have eye contact?
• Do you often find it hard to localize the source of sounds?

Hearing Loss - The Solution

“Helping you to enjoy a better quality of life... sounds good!”

The Intuis Life, an open fitting style from Siemens

There are many possible causes of hearing loss - anything from a damaged eardrum or a simple wax blockage, to deterioration of hearing commonly caused by the natural ageing process or through exposure to excessive noise.

Nature designed our hearing to work in stereo. As a result , if you experience hearing loss, we recommend two hearing aids will be far more effective than one. We accomodate this through our special offer which provides two digital hearing aids for the price of one.

Figures indicate that one out of seven individuals does not have full hearing and one out of ten hears so poorly that a hearing instrument would help.

A completely-in-the-canal style hearing aid from Phonak

The degree of hearing loss varies from person to person

Between the two extremes of hearing well and hearing nothing, there are many degrees of impairment. The terms used to describe the degree of hearing loss are mild, moderate, severe and profound. Most hearing losses are mild to moderate.

What does the degree of hearing loss mean?

• Mild hearing loss: unable to hear soft sounds, difficulty understanding speech clearly in noisy environments.
• Moderate hearing loss: unable to hear soft and moderately loud sounds, considerable difficulty understanding speech, particularly with background noise.
• Severe hearing loss: some loud sounds are audible but communication without a hearing instrument is impossible.
• Profound hearing loss: some extremely loud sounds are audible but communication without a hearing instrument is impossible.
  

A Behind-The-Ear style fitting from Phonak

Digital hearing aids

Digital hearing aids process sound digitally using a tiny computer inside the aid. This makes it possible to process and customise sounds very precisely to suit your hearing loss and you can then listen to sound comfortably, whatever the pattern of your hearing loss. Many digital aids can be programmed with different settings for different sound environments that you can select at the touch of a button. Some adjust themselves automatically.

Can digital hearing aids help in noisy places?

One of the biggest problems for people with hearing aids is following what someone is saying in noisy places. Many digital hearing aids are designed to reduce steady kinds of background noise such as the rumble of traffic or the whirr of a fan. This makes listening more comfortable and can help you pick out one voice when many people are talking.

To help with this problem, many digital hearing aids use directional microphones to help you hear sounds best when they are directly in front of you so that you can focus on what you want to listen to. Most digital hearing aids have very effective feedback management systems to eliminate the past problem of whistling or howling.