October 15, 2024

Insights for Your Hearing Health

Get trusted tips, insights, and hearing health updates from your hearing care team.

Whether you’re exploring solutions for the first time or a long-time hearing aid user, our experts at Advanced Hearing Aid & Diagnostics, LLC are here to offer advice and resources to support your journey.

6 Tricks to Make Hearing Aid Batteries Last

There is one component that is crucial to keeping hearing aids cost effective and that’s the batteries. It is one of the largest financial challenges consumers have to deal with when buying hearing aids because the costs of replacing them can add up fast. Usually the batteries die at the worst time which is even

What Is An Audiologist?

An Audiologist is a hearing healthcare professional. A person who is uniquely qualified to assess, diagnose, and treat hearing loss and balance disorders. The requirements for obtaining a license to practice as an Audiologist has changed significantly over the years. Current standards require a minimum of a doctoral degree obtained from an accredited university, completion of

Sometimes A Hearing Aid Is Not Enough

Some people think that once you start wearing a hearing aid, you’ll be able to hear anything, anywhere, and anytime. But this is not the case. A hearing aid is an aid, something to assist you to hear better. But in the end, it is an electronic device that is better than your unaided normal

Hearing Aid Maintenance & Cleaning Tips

How To Keep Your Hearing Aids In Good Working Order You’ve bought a hearing aid, you wear it faithfully every day. But do you remember to take care of it? Do you know what to do if it suddenly stops working? Here are 4 things you can do to keep your hearing aid in good

Advantages & Disadvantages Of The Most Common Styles Of Hearing Aids

There are several different styles or sizes of hearing aids. However, there are two styles that are sold more commonly than any of the others. Today I would like to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the two most common styles of hearing aids. The “RIC” Or Receiver-In-Canal Hearing Aid The most commonly purchased

Age-Related Hearing Loss In Corpus Christi, TX

Most people may not have heard the term, but they probably are familiar with the condition. Presbycusis is the technical/medical term for an age-related hearing loss. In fact, hearing loss is the third most common chronic health complaint among older adults (heart disease and arthritis being numbers 1 and 2 respectively). Our audiologist has years of

Top 5 Signs Of Hearing Loss

Have To Turn The TV Volume Louder Some of the newer thin-screen TVs don’t have the best sound quality. But if you are having to turn up the volume louder than you used to, and especially if people are complaining that the TV is too loud, you might have a hearing problem. Have To Ask

Sudden Onset Hearing Loss

Most hearing losses occur gradually over time. We notice that we start to have problems hearing certain voices or in certain situations. We might start asking people to repeat. Family or friends may start to make comments about it. Slowly we become aware that we are not hearing as well as we used to. However,

Constant Ringing In The Ear Treatment In Corpus Christi, TX

Tinnitus is a noise generated within the ear that only you can hear (in extremely rare cases is it audible to another person). Tinnitus is actually a rather common occurrence. Occasional, brief bursts of ringing in the ear are completely normal. It’s like a muscle twitch that we get sometimes in our eyelid or a

Ringing In The Ear Treatment In Corpus Christi, TX

You’ve noticed that you have been hearing some sort of sound in your ear. It might be a ringing, a buzzing, a roaring, sound like water running, crickets, locusts, or even your pulse. What is it? And what can you do about it? All of the types of noise mentioned above fall into the category