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Purtone Hearing Centers (480) 374-5567 Make The Most Of Your Hearing Aids Do you want to get the most from your hearing aids? After careful discussion with your hearing healthcare professional, you have invested in quality hearing instruments fitting your hearing loss and your lifestyle. Now that you have your hearing aids, how you choose to use them will greatly impact the benefit you receive from them. One very important factor in the success of hearing aids is how often you wear them each day. Hearing begins at the ear, but ends in the brain. Sounds are picked up by your ear and travel to your brain’s cortex, where they are processed. If you have had a hearing loss for many years, your brain has been working without some sounds for all that time and as a result, the world has become quiet and unclear. Still, researchers have discovered that the human brain can adapt to new input, with enough experience. Now that your hearing aids are providing you with sounds you were missing for so long, your brain requires frequent and regular exposure in order to adjust to the new sounds and begin to make good use of them. If you wear your aids only occasionally, the hearing aid sounds may remain strange and unfamiliar to your brain, but if you wear your hearing aids every day from morning until night,

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Page 1: Make The Most Of Your Hearing Aids

Purtone Hearing Centers (480) 374-5567

Make The Most Of Your Hearing Aids

Do you want to get the most from your hearing aids? After careful discussion with your hearing healthcare professional, you

have invested in quality hearing instruments fitting your hearing loss and

your lifestyle. Now that you have your hearing aids, how you choose to use them

will greatly impact the benefit you receive from them. One very important factor in the success of hearing aids is how often you wear them each day.

Hearing begins at the ear, but ends in the brain. Sounds are picked up by your ear and travel to your brain’s cortex, where

they are processed. If you have had a hearing loss for many years, your brain has been working without some sounds for all that time and as a result, the world has become quiet and

unclear. Still, researchers have discovered that the human brain can adapt to new input, with enough experience. Now that your hearing aids are providing you with sounds you were missing for so long, your brain requires frequent and regular exposure in

order to adjust to the new sounds and begin to make good use of them. If you wear your aids only occasionally, the hearing aid sounds may remain strange and unfamiliar to your brain, but if you wear your hearing aids every day from morning until night,

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Purtone Hearing Centers (480) 374-5567

your brain will make the most of the sounds provided by the

hearing aids.

If you want to make the most of your hearing aid investment and have optimal communication with the world around you, wear your hearing aids every day, all day. Talk more with your

hearing healthcare professional about making your hearing aids an essential part of your daily routine.

For More Information Call Us at (480) 374-5567

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