{"id":2149,"date":"2023-01-27T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.entconsultants.net\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T22:35:16","slug":"why-hearing-aids-are-different-from-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entconsultants.net\/why-hearing-aids-are-different-from-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hearing Aids Are Different from Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
According to The Vision Council<\/a>, \u201cThere are 166.5 million US adults (63.7%) wearing Rx eyeglasses as of 2021.\u201d In contrast, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders<\/a> reports, \u201cAbout 28.8 million U.S. adults could benefit from using hearing aids\u201d; however, only one in five<\/a> people who could benefit actually uses one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These statistics show that wearing glasses is much more common than wearing hearing aids<\/a>. We review other differences between these two treatments for sensory loss below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For many people, when they put on a pair of prescription eyeglasses, their vision is essentially restored to 20\/20. Unfortunately, the same effect is not achieved by putting in a set of hearing aids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is because hearing aids do not actually restore hearing \u2013 instead, they amplify sounds to a volume the damaged ears can detect.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHearing Aids Don\u2019t Restore \u201c20\/20\u201d Hearing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Hearing Aids Have an Adjustment Period<\/h2>\n\n\n\n