Hearing loss can have a big impact on your life, from your work to your relationships and emotional well-being. Hearing aids can make a big difference, especially if you pick the right ones and get help adjusting to them.
A hearing aid is a battery-powered electronic device designed to improve your hearing. Small enough to wear in your ear or behind it, it makes some sounds louder. Hearing aids may help you hear better when it's quiet and when it's noisy. Here’s how they work:
A microphone picks up sound around you.
An amplifier makes the sound louder.
A receiver sends these amplified sounds into your ear.
Not everyone with hearing loss can benefit from hearing aids. But only 1 in 5 people who could have improvement wear them. Most of the time, they’re for people who have damage to their inner ear or the nerve that links the ear with the brain. These are some of the things that can cause damage:
Hearing loss caused by problems with the ear canal, eardrum, or middle ear is called conductive hearing loss. Usually, surgery or other medical help can make it better. But those options aren’t right for everyone. If you have an open ear canal and a relatively normal external ear, a hearing aid may help.
Some people are born without an external ear or ear canal, which means they can’t use a typical hearing aid. Instead, they may be able to use a device that sends sound to the inner ear through the bone of their skull.
Hearing aids work best for people with sensorineural hearing loss. This type of hearing loss is a result of damage to your inner ear or auditory nerve (the nerve that connects your ear to your brain). Causes of sensorineural hearing loss include:
Aging.
Disease.
Infection.
Loud noises.
Certain medications.
Procedure Det
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