Patent ID: 8331576

Claim:
A method for programming a bone integrated bone conducting hearing aid, the method comprising: subjecting a hearing aid user to air borne sound and/or to bone transmitted vibrations to collect test results; calculating a bone conducting hearing threshold based on the collected test results; choosing a bone integrated bone conducting hearing aid based on the calculated bone conducting hearing threshold; applying the chosen bone integrated bone conducting hearing aid to a skin penetrating abutment which is firmly attached to a bone integrated fixture in the skull bone of the hearing aid user; vibrating a vibrator in the applied bone integrated bone conducting hearing aid at a range of vibration frequencies and amplitudes; obtaining the hearing aid user's experienced hearing threshold based on said vibrating of the vibrator in the applied bone integrated bone conducting hearing aid; and tuning the chosen bone integrated bone conducting hearing aid for future wearing by the hearing aid user based on the experienced hearing threshold, wherein the chosen bone integrated bone conducting hearing aid includes an internal programmable sine-generator, and said vibrating includes producing the range of vibration frequencies and amplitudes by the internal programmable sine-generator.