Hi, I’m Dr. Egan from Now Hear This, and today I’m excited to talk to you about some brand-new hearing aids from Starkey and it’s called their Signature Series. This new device platform was released in March of 2024, and it is specific to custom in-the-ear style of hearing aids. You may ask: ‘what are custom in-the-ear hearing aids?’ These are hearing aids that are molded via an impression silicone material to be made to the shape of the person’s ear canal. The nice thing about Starkey is that they have been at the forefront of custom hearing devices for many years, and they are my go-to wh ..read more

Hi everyone! My name is Dr. Shopovick, and I’m an Audiologist at Now Hear This® Audiology. At our clinic, we provide evidence-based practice, patient-centered care, and advanced skills and tools to get you hearing as best as possible. We pride ourselves in working with the seven different hearing aid manufacturers so we can give you the exact model, style, and technology level that best fits your needs. We also use advanced technology to maximize the benefit of your hearing aids, and we ensure that every patient’s listening needs are met. We also work with Hearing Charities of America, which ..read more

Hi everyone, it’s Dr. Shopovick, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and a very happy New Year! Today we are going to review the differences between a hearing aid and a cochlear implant. Now, the majority of you are probably more familiar with a hearing aid just because we talk all about those on our channel, so I’m only going to briefly review that today, and we’ll spend the majority of the time focusing on what an implant is. So, I’m just going to briefly go over the hearing aid portion. So, most of you have probably seen this type of hearing aid before. It’s a receiver in the ear c ..read more

Hi, I’m Dr. Egan from Now Hear This®, and today I’m going to tell you a really awesome feature about the Oticon rechargeable behind-the-ear hearing aids. So, the most popular type of hearing aid is called the RIC, and in the RIC it’s a behind-the-ear hearing aid that looks like this. You can see this part goes behind the ear, and this little rubber tip wiggles inside the ear. A really awesome thing that I love about Oticon’s RIC hearing aids is that they are one of the only companies where you can swap out the lithium-ion rechargeable battery inside the hearing aid. So, for the vast majori ..read more

Hi, I’m Dr. Egan from Now Hear This®, and today I’m going to tell you about some exciting new hearing aid updates from a company called Signia.  Several years ago, they came out with the AX platform and it was really exciting at the time. They came out with Silk hearing aids, which were tiny, little hearing aids which were battery-operated, and they looked like this. You open and close the battery door every couple of days, and they were much more discreet.  Most recently, they came out with the IX platform, which has quite a few new exciting updates that they built upon the AX plat ..read more

Hi, I’m Dr. Egan from Now Hear This, and today I’m going to talk to you about our newest equipment, our hearing aid ReDux dryer system. One of the biggest enemies of hearing aids is moisture. All hearing aids experience moisture in the ear canal, but especially in North Carolina, we face even more. Even if we aren’t avid walkers, gardeners, or outdoors people. Just sitting outside, our hearing aids are exposed to humidity, and our new industrial ReDux hearing dryer removes full microliters of moisture and can bring a hearing aid from dead to life again. We added this ReDux system to our clini ..read more

Hi, I’m Dr. Egan from Now Hear This and today I’m going to talk to you about how hearing aid Bluetooth technology works. And one of the important things to keep in mind is that hearing aid Bluetooth is not the same as traditional Bluetooth found in wireless earbuds or wireless speaker systems. It is created primarily for the use of connecting via Bluetooth to a smartphone. So, you know, there are other accessories that can connect to hearing aids for wireless Bluetooth streaming of say computers, of the TV, things like that, but I’m going to focus on the built-in Bluetooth in most modern hear ..read more

Hi, my name is Dr. Tessitore from Now Hear This Hearing Aids and Audiology in Raleigh, North Carolina. Today I’m going to talk to you about the importance of hearing screenings, as well as telling you the difference between what a hearing screening is and what a full audiological evaluation is. So, to start with, a hearing screening is where we test four pitches. We give you one tone and you either hear it or you don’t, so it’s a pass or fail. If you pass, that’s great! I’ll recommend that you come back for another screening in three years, and if you fail, I’m going to recommend that you com ..read more

Dr. Egan provides updates and insights on the newest Starkey product launch. Learn more by scheduling an appointment at our clinic! (919) 256-2898 Hi, I’m Dr. Egan from Now Hear This and today I’m going to talk to you about some exciting new product updates from Starkey and they’ve created a new hearing aid platform called Starkey Genesis AI. Let’s get started! One of the big, exciting things about their new hearing aid that they launched just this spring is that there’s a 40% reduction in circuit noise. So, we have some patients who come in and get new hearing aids, and they are actually abl ..read more

Hi, I’m Dr. Egan from Now Hear This, and today I’m going to talk to you about the basics of managing earwax. Everyone builds earwax in their ears. This is entirely common and normal and the amount of earwax, as well as the texture and color, can change as we continue to live. It can also change based on a variety of different things: your genetic makeup, the amount of oil produced, and the number of skin cells that get mixed in. Earwax is okay and very healthy for us to produce, but sometimes people produce too much earwax. Earwax should work its way out of our ears naturally. Think of our ea ..read more