After the age of 50, a regular hearing test should be considered as important as one's yearly physical checkup. Many individuals remind themselves to have these important checkups by scheduling them around their birthday, an easy way to remember.
Testing is painless, comfortable and safe.
Basically, it consists of answering questions about your hearing health, recognizing everyday words at different volume levels, and identifying different sounds. Your ability to hear each tone, or frequency, produces a unique hearing pattern which is recorded on an audiogram. The hearing health care professional then uses the audiogram to determine the type and severity of the hearing loss. These tests should help determine whether a hearing loss is best treated medically, or with hearing aids.