hearing aids Melbourne Earcare Beachside

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Our Services

More than 75 percent of all hearing aid repairs are due to moisture and earwax accumulating in the hearing aid. The vast majority of these repairs are 100 percent preventable. It is extremely important to clean the entire hearing aid every time it is removed from your ear by wiping and brushing it. To better protect your investment, use a DRY-AID kit every night! Electronic dry-aid kits are the best. They include a germicidal light that kills most bacteria and other germs. They also have desiccants to absorb moisture and fans to circulate air around the internal components of the hearing aid. Get in the habit of cleaning the hearing aid after each use and keeping the hearing aid in the dry-aid kit at night. The hearing aid is electronic and moisture is the enemy! Preventive maintenance is the key to trouble free, long life from a hearing aid. A well maintained hearing aid can easily last 5 to 7 years, maybe longer.

Our services include the following:

Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs): FM Systems

We offer information and guidance on use of assistive listening devices, such as amplified telephones, FM transmitter systems, and infrared systems. These systems serve as additional help in situations when hearing aids do not provide the necessary assistance. We will either order the device in which you are interested, or give you the information to order on your own.

Audiometric Evaluations: Adults and Children

The audiometric evaluation (audio) consists of testing with both speech and pure tones. Testing with pure tones is done to determine the amount of hearing loss for volume. Speech discrimination scores are obtained to estimate the loss of hearing pertaining to the fine-tuning ability of the ear.

Battery Sales

  • Common battery sizes are 10, 13, 312 and 675. To identify the battery size, manufacturers use an industry standard color code system.
    • Size 10 yellow
    • Size 312 brown
    • Size 13 orange
    • Size 675 blue

Ear Molds: Swim Molds

We fit and dispense custom swim ear plugs that keep your ears dry while swimming.

Ear Molds: Custom-made Hearing Protection Earmolds

Any kind of noise exposure is potentially damaging to hearing, so whether your noise exposure comes from your work environment or just mowing the lawn, custom earmolds can provide protection from noise-induced hearing loss. We also offer custom earmolds to meet the needs of musicians, hunters and pilots.

Hearing Aids

If you have an aid that needs repair we will be happy to take care of that for you. Many repairs can be handled in the office but if it needs to go to the manufacturer, we will loan you an aid until we can get yours back for you. To help keep your hearing aids working optimally, we offer  the "Dry and Store" or "Dri-Aid".

Tympanometry

IMPEDANCE testing evaluates your eardrum's ability to vibrate, the pressure in the middle ear, the reflex action of the tiniest muscle in the body (stapedius), and the function of the eustachian tube.

Video-Otoscopy

The Video Otoscope allows patients to see, in full color, a magnified image of the examination in progress. A wide angle fiber optic lens shows the whole picture.