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What To Know About Locked Hearing Aids with Dr. Schlater

Understanding Locked Hearing Aids

  – Locked hearing aids can only be accessed and reprogrammed by a specific clinic or manufacturer.

  – The lock is due to a code that prevents other clinics from making changes to the programming.

  – This restriction prevents patients from seeking care at other clinics if their current clinic is unavailable or unsatisfactory.

  – These hearing aids can be cleaned and checked by other clinics but cannot be reprogrammed unless by the original company.

  – Dr. Schlater advises against purchasing locked hearing aids due to potential limitations in care flexibility… Continue reading

September 16, 2024 Uncategorized

How to Pair Your Oticon Hearing Aids with an iPhone: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hi everyone, it’s Doctor Shopovick, and today we’re going to be reviewing how to pair your Oticon hearing aids to your iPhone for Bluetooth, streaming phone calls, music, and how to connect it to the app.

As you can see, I already have the Oticon Companion app downloaded in the bottom left. If you don’t already have it downloaded, you’re going to open up your App Store. In the search box, you’re going to type in Oticon, and it’ll pop up at the top as Oticon Companion. You’re going to click that, and this is what it looks like, and then you would hit download… Continue reading

September 3, 2024 Uncategorized

Oticon Intent Find My Hearing Aids Feature

Hi everyone, it’s Doctor Shopovick, and today I’m going to show you guys how to track your Oticon hearing aids in case you lose one or both of them. To do that, you are going to open up your Oticon Companion app and then go to the Hearing Aids tab. Then you’re going to click on Find My Hearing Aids, and it will track the exact place that the hearing aids are located… Continue reading

August 2, 2024 Another Category, Legal, Post Types, Standard Posts, Uncategorized

Audiologist’s Q&A with a Hearing Aid User

Dr. Shopovick: Hi Everyone! I’m Dr. Shopovick. I’m an audiologist here at Now Hear This®, and this is Nathalie, our Patient Care Coordinator. — Nathalie: Hello, I am 28 years old, and I wear two hearing aids. I have conductive hearing loss, which is a lower pitch hearing loss and is a little different than age-related hearing loss. I’m here to share my experience about getting hearing aids and everything that comes before that… Continue reading

July 20, 2024 Another Category, Legal, Post Types, Standard Posts, Uncategorized

Unlocking Better Hearing: The Importance of the QUICKSIN Test

Hey everyone! It’s Dr. Shopovick, and today we will be reviewing speech-in-noise testing. So, we all know that a standalone hearing test does not really give us the full picture on how well you perform in noisy situations such as a restaurant, which is why we integrate a really important test called the QUICKSIN into our hearing test protocol… Continue reading

June 1, 2024 Another Category, Legal, Post Types, Standard Posts, Uncategorized

Hearing Aid Accessories: The Basics with Dr. Egan

Hi, I’m Doctor Egan from Now Hear This, and today I’m going to talk to you about some different accessory devices that you can use with your different kinds of hearing aids. So, a lot of folks ask about accessory devices in our clinic. Usually, it’s people who’ve gotten hearing aids elsewhere and have maybe moved to the area or have seen them through friends or family, things like that… Continue reading

May 15, 2024 Another Category, Legal, Post Types, Standard Posts, Uncategorized