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Hearing solutions

Hearing loss
- what to do?

Today, there are numerous hearing solutions available, which can be adjusted to meet the individual needs and way of life of people with hearing loss and thus ensure a greatly improved quality of life. With the aid of state-of-the-art technology, many people with a hearing loss are able to hear and actively take part in life again.


Do you feel you have a hearing loss? Then don’t hesitate, go and have your hearing tested by a hearing care professional. The longer you wait before you start to actively do something against your hearing loss, the longer it will take you to regain better hearing. Why? It’s because your brain accustoms itself to the restricted hearing ability.

step by step to  
a hearing aid

For many people coping with the fact of having a hearing loss is a big hurdle and people have many questions about what to do. That is why we offer help with a short step-by-step guide.

1. The hearing test

If you assuem you have a hearin loss, take our online hearing test. This test sheds light on the level of your hearing ability.
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2. Visit a hearing care professional

Based on the test, the hearing care professional can explain to you how much a hearing aid can compensate for your hearing loss and what the limits are.

3. Individual requirements

It is important to describe the situations in which you have experienced hearing problems as precisely as possible to the hearing care professional. What do you do professionally? Do you practise sport? Do you enjoy listening to music? Do you play an instrument? Do you go to the theatre or cinema regularly?

4. How much does a hearing aid cost?

The cost of a hearing aid depends varies dependant on the level of technology. 90% of people are supplied with two hearing aids. The hearing you are fitted with will be based on your hearing and lifestyle needs. The amount of financial support you receive for your hearing aid depends on your health insurance as well as the local regulatory provisions with which you should clarify this issue. 

5. Individual fitting

The hearing aids chosen will then be customized specifically for you by your hearing care professional. Your hearing levels and lifestyle needs will be taken into account when setting up the hearing aids.

When a hearing aid can no longer help

Technology and medicine are now so far advanced that even people who have very little hearing have a chance of regaining better hearing: a cochlea implant (CI) is an electronic hearing prosthesis, which can be used when conventional hearing aids are not suitable. Children especially who are born deaf are often fitted with a CI. Fitting of a CI at an early age is advantageous, enabling the children to develop their speech and language skills. 

The path to the cochlea implant

Find out here how people can gradually return to the world of sounds with the help of a Cochlea Implant.

1. Diagnosis and referral:
The necessity of a CI is usually diagnosed by an ENT physician or an audiologist who then refers the patient to a specialist CI centre.

2. Consultation:
There it is determined whether the person is an eligible candidate for a CI. Should this be the case, he/she is informed about the operation, the way the CI operates, as well as the rehabilitation.

3. Operation:
In an ENT clinic the surgeon implants the inner components of the CI and places the electrode in the cochlea. The operation lasts approximately two to four hours.

4. Fitting and rehabilitation:
The first activation and fitting of the system by the CI audiologist usually occurs two to four weeks after the operation. The post-operative rehabilitation then begins:

  • The speech processor in adult patients is set according to individual hearing ability. Extensive hearing and speech training lasting for several months then follows.
  • Rehabilitation for children usually lasts several months or years. The children learn hearing and speech ability with intensive support during that time.