Hearing aids have had great strides through the years that Dr Kristi Mendoza has been an Audiologist. Digital technology became available in the 1990s and now manufacturers like Oticon use wireless technology to connect hearing aids to other accessories such as mobile phones for both media and audio streaming. This technological advancement is embedded in the current technology. Not unlike a computer that has improved in speech and accuracy over time, there has been a doubling in processing power and decrease in chip size in the hearing aid above every year and a half. That makes custom hearing aids smaller and more discreet.
Newer technology hearing aids change our life experience for the better. We are able to best help those with tinnitus with tinnitus programs that can be used alongside the hearing aid as well as in independent memories. Audiologists have more technology to help the brain to retrieve and hear the sound quality that is lost from having hearing loss that increases over time. The ears just pick up the sound, we need to get the information to the brain to process.
If we treat a hearing loss early we are able to change the brain and decrease the chance of cognitive decline. Better hearing means better communication and this leads to a better and more integrated life. I t is always best not to wait until you are missing most of the conversation around you before you seek help and start to treat your hearing loss. There are many types of styles and colors that will fit with your lifestyle and this is something that will not only improve your hearing but bring your life back to you when you can be social like you used to be in the past.
Hearing aids are also designed to help pediatric patients. You may not be aware of the laws for pediatric hearing aid fittings, but this population of patients can’t legally be fit with amplification without an audiologist. Call and find out about Oticon today.
Oticon is part of William Demont, a company which has been operating for over 100 years. They have researched extensively on delivering the best sound through their hearing aids, as well as how best to communicate.
Oticon was one of the first companies to connect the hearing aids with smartphones. Over the years this connection has happened with direct to iPhone, but includes accessories that can connect to Android as well.
Oticon has been a leader in providing a speech signal in all types of situations, noise and quiet. Oticon provides hearing aids at all price points and they all can connect to the iPhone in some capacity.
Oticon has some of the best technologically advanced hearing aids because of the research they put behind them. The research happening at the Eriksholm Research Center in focuses on cognitive hearing science, social hearing science and augmented hearing science. Oticon also has helped support Ida Institute to better study and educate on communication strategies for everyone, hearing loss or not.
Oticon has gone beyond the hearing aid itself and incorporated the whole human, especially the brain. Cognition plays a primary role on how well individuals succeed with hearing aids and Oticon has been a leader in the study and adaptation of the brain with hearing loss.
The ability to have connectivity, to have a way to alert you or a loved one that the batteries are running low, or if someone is ringing the doorbell is something that Oticon incorporates into their technology. If you don’t want to change batteries, the More line has rechargeable batteries that last all day long even if you are streaming from your Smartphone.
OpenSound Booster helps focus on speech rather than nonspeech sounds in a noisy environment. Twinlink wireless communication which helps the hearing aids “talk” to each other to give the user the ability to hear around them better. These hearing aids are available in all styles, but some features are not available in the smallest of hearing aids.
Oticon was the recent CES Innovation Award Winner for the More product line and is always striving to bring the best technology to the market. The best positive impact of Oticon is ease of listening, comfortable sound quality and flexibility of the sound to the patients audiometric data.
Oticon was one of the first hearing aid manufacturers to incorporate brain learning into how they programmed and engineered their product. They were one of the first to break into digital technology, streaming and having an app to download for the consumer to give them more personal choice.