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Phone Issues Waldorf Office

Dear Patients: We have been having trouble with the telephone lines in Waldorf since midday yesterday. We are working diligently with Comcast to resolve the issue. While it may seem like calls are going directly to voicemail, we are answering calls as they come in from other offices as efficiently …

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Why not just buy hearing aids from Costco?

Why not buy hearing aids from Costco? Hearing health is a huge market with numerous options and working your way through the process of hearing testing to hearing aids can be quite confusing.  While it can be tempting to go cheaper on your hearing aids by going to Costco, most …

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Hearing Loss and Your Overall Health  

Your hearing can be related to many aspects of your overall health, including physical and social well-being.   Research has indicated that hearing loss is about twice as common in adults with Type 2 diabetes compared to those without the disease. In addition, adults with pre-diabetes have a 30% higher rate …

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Realistic Expectations with Bluetooth Connectivity and Hearing Aids

In a perfect world your Bluetooth compatible hearing aids would never have connectivity issues.  The reality is that every time cell phone manufacturers push a software update, there is the potential for your hearing aids to have issues with connectivity.  With every software update, hearing aid manufacturers must scramble to …

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Oticon Better Hearing Challenge

Take the Oticon Better Hearing Challenge! Can your current devices stand up to the challenge? Did you know that we hear with our brains and not our ears? Oticon More™ hearing devices give the brain more of what it needs to make better sense of sound, so you can get …

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Working with Hearing Loss

Hearing loss can pose a challenge to communication in any context, but working relationships can be particularly difficult to navigate with hearing loss. At work we are keen to build friendships and expand our networks, but a lot can be on the line in our work efficiency, as well. When …

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OTC Hearing Devices

Lost, confused, unsure, or puzzled about the difference between prescription hearing devices and over the counter devices? We are here to help. On October 17, 2022 over the counter devices (OTC) became available to the public. The bill making this possible was introduced in 2017 and finalized in August 2022. …

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How Treating Hearing Loss Improves Your Relationships

When we ask relationship experts if they could recommend one way to improve relationships, a common theme emerges. Healthy relationships rely on good communication, and couples’ therapists and other experts agree that miscommunication underlies many other relationship issues. By definition, a relationship is a communication process between two people. When …