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Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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MBBS, MS - ENT, DNB (ENT)

ENT Specialist•Delhi
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Hearing has a deep impact on your life. It determines the kind of life you are going to lead. It has been found by various studies and surveys that hearing aids drastically improve the quality of life you lead. It is the much needed relief to a life, burdened by the stress and strains of living with hearing impairment. The hearing aids are not just instruments. This is a way to live a life of dignity. According to the Evaluation of the Social and Economic Costs of Hearing Impairment report, hear...more
Last Updated: 8 years ago• Featured Tip
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ENT Specialist•Kota
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Hearing is one of the five senses that you or anyone else relies on for communication and a whole host of other things. Among the five senses, touch, smell, taste, hearing and sight, it is often hearing, which is the most easily affected. You don't have to be a senior citizen to experience hearing loss as it is quite common among younger people as well. This problem is also getting widespread with each passing day.

Before coping with hearing loss, the first job is to detect it:
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Last Updated: 8 years ago• Featured Tip
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MBBS (M.A.M.C), M.S. ENT

ENT Specialist•Delhi
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Traditionally, people resort to hearing aids in order to take care of their auditory problems. The perception of hearing reduces as age progresses and people find it absolutely necessary to come up with ways by which they can improve their hearing. However, cochlear implants have become extremely popular because of the method that it uses in comparison to the traditional methods of hearing aids.

What is a cochlear implant?

A cochlear implant is an electronic medical device that...more
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MBBS, Diploma In Otorhinolaryngology (DL...read more

ENT Specialist•Bangalore
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Usually Government schemes only offer body worn and manual BTE devices which are practically obsolete!
RIC type (receiver-in-the-canal) or ITC (in-the-canal) or CIC (completely-in-canal) are more expensive sophisticated Digital Multichannel hearing aids.
The better hearing aids start at ₹20,000 per ear and go on to almost ₹4,00,000 per ear for the top of the line super-concealed nano-technology hearing aids!
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PDDM, MHA, MBBS

General Physician•Nashik
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It cannot be measured but certainly your quality of life improves as well as your family members are benefitted.
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I am suffering from communication problem I have minimal hearing loss audiologist says it is in normal range but I am not satisfied with there answer I makes depressive and frustrated every time it affect my communication skill then I start to ignore conversation with family, friends and with other sir I have hearing loss level only 20db in right and 22db in left ear my voice become worse sir I wants to become a good businessman but social stress and bad conversation makes my mind weak and my face only one expression for any situation it makes me to forget the difference between yes or no I am not able to say properly to people what I wants form them and what is like and dislike of me I wants to makes my family happy but it is not possible for me in this time but before this problem I was the vary good comedian in school and in home every one wants to be friend but in this time the situation is totally changed lack of conversation makes me unknown and frustrating person in every time in home and collage no one lesion what I say because I talks to loudly I hear my own voice loudly sir it is the stage where I have to makes myself what I want but this problem always push me back to poor condition I always cary in alone but in public I try to be strong how I become a top business man if I have did not understand what people says in front of me you loose my interest in all activity some time situation become so critical like a sico person I behave no one like my style to face the problem life become hell for me I want to use hearing aid because I wants gain my sharp minded and always happy in every situation type personality once again please tell me the advantage and disadvantage of hearing aid please do not tell me to go an ENT specialist and audiologist because I already try this I takes medicine and clean my ear wax by ENT specialist but no difference occur ENT specialist says if facing problem in conversation in collage with friend and in family and other if it affect the relation then you have to go for hearing aid trial but I wants to know from you is it good idea to use hearing aid.

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Ayurveda•Kanpur
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its not a good idea to use hearing aid because it may make you dependent.
better to do meditation in silent ambience daily for minimum 15 minutes.
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MD Pediatrics

Pediatrician•Faridabad
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Hearing aid are meant to help you with your hearing when your natural hearing is impaired due to any reason. It is safe to use hearing aid nad do not any side effects.
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Audiologist•Delhi
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You can go for either widex or starkey ric hearing aids in b/w 50k -1lac price range which will help you to hear better in your daily lifestyle.
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