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Summary: On-the-Ear (OTE) hearing aids provide patients with a natural sound. Learn more about the features of an on-the-ear hearing aid in this free hearing loss advice video from a licensed hearing aid dispenser.
Tom Higgins is the owner of Advanced Hearing Services in Ramsey, N.J. Higgins, BC-HIS, is a licensed hearing aid dispenser certified by the National Board for Certification in Hearing...read more
"Hi, my name is Tom Higgins. The newest hearing aids are what we call on-the-ear instruments, and they give you a more open fit, and they are also very cosmetic appealing. You hardly know you have them on. One of the things that make them work better, is that the open dome that goes in your ear keeps your ear from feeling occluded, which gives you a much more natural sound. They also can be equipped with more than one program. So you can have a program for TV, one for normal listening, one for telephone, one for direction. This is our on-the-ear instrument with the receiver in the ear, microphone here, directional microphone back here. Here, we have our volume control and program control. These instruments are also available in a wide variety of colors. They still have a battery source, and the receiver is actually in your ear. So you put your receiver in your ear, and you have a very comfortable instrument that is very programmable and very versatile. Another nice feature of the or option with the OTE (and some other hearing aids) is what we call blue tooth compatibility, which gives you the ability to listen to your cell phone iPod through your hearing instrument."
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