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Hearing Aid Benefits vs Discount Program
As the year winds down and December approaches, many people try to get into the office as they know their insurance deductible has been met or their insurance is changing next year and they want…
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Improvement in Hearing Devices
Decibel Hearing Services has been around for well over a decade and Kelley and I have been audiologists for many years. Hearing aid manufacturers come up with “new and improved” devices every year and while…
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The Importance of Hearing Aids
The top three physical conditions in Thousand Oaks and throughout the country are: There are more than 48 million people currently suffering from some type of hearing loss. Of those millions of people, only 20…
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The History of Hearing Aids
Think hearing loss is a modern-day condition, occurring in line with the development of personal music players and industrial equipment? Think again. This is the evolution of the hearing aid.Hearing loss has been around for…
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Hearing Aid Fitting. The Best Next Step
After months (more likely years) of your family and friends urging you to seek help for your fairly obvious hearing loss, you gave in and had your hearing tested. After your hearing test, your audiologist…
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Diagnosing Tinnitus
How to Diagnose Tinnitus Have you ever heard a ringing in your ear that could not be attributed to any outside sources? What about a hissing, roaring, sizzling or clicking? If so, it sounds like…
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Maintaining Your Hearing Aid
Would you buy a new camera and never clean the lens? What about buying a beautiful five-burner gas stove and never planning to wash off the droplets of dried sauce? Of course not; you are…
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When Should You Upgrade Your Hearing Aid?
New Technology, Better Hearing Experience Most people are in no rush to update their belongings, especially when things still work. Is your microwave older than you are? Yeah, but if it still cooks popcorn why…
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Hooray for Rain!
All of us living in Southern California know that we have experienced drought for way too long. So when this season’s rains came, I think most of us rejoiced. But I have had some of…
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Turn Down That Noise in Your Headphones!
The number of Americans with hearing loss has doubled within the past 30 years. Children in Thousand Oaks as well as those around the country are at an ever growing risk of developing hearing loss.…