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What you should expect during a hearing test:

Otoscopy: Visually inspecting your outer ear to ensure your ear canal is clear and not obstructed by earwax or a foreign object.

Air Conduction testing:  While wearing headphones or insert earphones, our audiologists will present “beeps” to identify the softest level of sound that you can hear.

Bone Conduction Testing: Using a headset that sends the vibration of sound directly into your cochlea, this test will identify if your hearing loss is due to your outer ear and middle ear, or your inner ear.

Speech Recognition Testing: This test identifies the softest level of speech that you can barely understand.

Word Recognition Score: This test identifies how clearly you can understand speech by repeating words at an audible level.

Speech-in-Noise testing: This test helps our audiologists identify how well you should expect to hear in background noise with hearing aids and the best way to optimize your performance.

If you haven’t had a hearing test in the past 5 years, it’s time to get your hearing tested. Find a Best Practices Audiologist near you to see how well you can hear.

There is no such thing as the Best hearing aid for everyone. However, there is a Best hearing aid for you.  

As an independent locally owned and operated audiology clinic, we dispense the best hearing aids from ALL of the major manufacturers.  We just need to make sure we identify your specific wants and needs before we recommend technology from either Phonak, Oticon, ReSound, Starkey, Signia, or Widex - any of those hearing aids are available at Applied Hearing Solutions in Phoenix.

Optimal Physical fit of your hearing aids – This is always Priority #1.  If your hearing aids are not comfortable, you will not wear them.  Physical fit also impacts acoustics and how well your hearing aids can be programmed.

Real Ear Measurement – This is the Gold Standard when it comes to verifying hearing aid programming.  Without this critical procedure, it is impossible to program your hearing aids perfectly to your hearing loss prescription.

Validated Outcome Measures – Pre and Post Subjective questionnaires are the best way to ensure that your hearing aid treatment is helping you hear all the things you want to hear.

Hearing Aid Care & Use – Long-term success with hearing aids requires that you know how to properly use and take care of your devices.

Real Ear Measurement (REM), is a method of verification to ensure your hearing aids are programmed correctly to your hearing loss prescription.  

To perform REM, your audiologist will place probe microphones tubes into your ears along with your hearing aids to measure the amount of amplification you are receiving approximately 5mm away from your eardrum.  They will then custom program the amplification levels in the hearing aid software to match your hearing loss prescriptive targets.

When it comes to hearing aid verification, Real Ear Measurement is the undisputed Gold Standard.

Best Practices guidelines indicate that to maintain your highest level of hearing aid performance, you must receive long-term follow-up care beyond your initial fitting period.  To accomplish this, it is recommended you see your hearing care professional no less than 2 times per year.

During these visits, you audiologist will perform earwax removal, hearing aid cleaning and maintenance, Electroacoustic Analysis (EAA) to test your hearing aid diagnostics, additional hearing evaluations to track changes in your hearing, & reprogram your devices to your changing hearing loss prescription.

Typically, hearing aids are designed to last between 5 to 7 years.  Patients who take good personal care of their hearing aids as well as consistent professional maintenance can expect to get even longer than this.  

Several patients at our clinic have made their hearing aids last up to 12 years before getting new devices. However, the average hearing aid user will upgrade their hearing aids every 4.4 years due to significant advancements in hearing aid technology.