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Is There Any Difference Between Hearing Aid Manufacturers?
When it comes to choosing your hearing aids for the first time, or when you wish to upgrade them, it’s natural to want to know which hearing aids are best. Just like any other purchase, you want to make sure they will deliver the sound quality you need and be...
Fixing Common Problems With ReSound Smart 3D App
COVID has created or contributed to many challenges in just about every sector of society. Still, it has also helped to reveal functionality and operating issues in various systems as well. Operational problems using the ReSound Assist feature included in the ReSound...
What Is 3D Ear Scanning, And How Can It Help You?
When I became an audiologist over ten years ago, I did so intending to help as many people as possible with a basic life challenge: losing your ability to hear. To me, helping people hear better isn't just a job. It's a way to help people enjoy their lives and to...
4 Common Hearing Aid Problems And How To Fix Them
Here in Hardin County, hearing loss is more common than you think. Most of my patients don't go to rock concerts and blast loud music in their houses. They just live. Going to the gun range, working in the sweltering heat on noisy oil & gas equipment, and even...
Dr. Joni Ruiz Shares Her Opinion on Online Hearing Aids
An online hearing aid is a hearing aid that can be bought from a company that only (or mostly) sells its hearing devices online. In some ways, this is a good thing. Because only about 50% of people with a hearing loss will seek treatment for it, it’s a way to get more...
The Most Common Signs of Hearing Loss
Hearing loss in our community is pretty common, especially noise-induced hearing loss among refinery workers and hunters – many of the people who see us and are exposed long term to loud noise are in their thirties. We see a number of older people with a hearing loss...
Why the Awareness of Healthy Hearing is so Important
Isn’t it strange how wearing glasses is seen as ‘trendy’ whereas hearing aids are some sort of taboo? For many years, hearing aids have been attached to the signs of aging, and many people are reluctant to get help in fear that they will look ‘bulky’ and ‘obvious.’...
Reasons It Could Be Time to Upgrade Your Hearing Aids
At our hearing center, patients regularly ask me how they'll know when it's time to upgrade their hearing aids. The answer isn't as simple as you might think. Although hearing aids typically last five to seven years, it's not always the devices' lifespan that...
How Much Do Hearing Aid Repairs Cost?
It's my firm belief that cost should never be a barrier to caring for your hearing health. When I founded Big Thicket Hearing Aids & Audiology, my goal was to create a hearing clinic that provides excellent yet affordable hearing care to the people of Hardin...
Can Hearing Aid Troubleshooting Solve iPhone 12 Sound Problems?
At Big Thicket Hearing Aids & Audiology, educating our local community about hearing-related issues is a significant part of our commitment to provide the people of Hardin County with excellent hearing care. When an issue arises that has a negative impact on the...
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