ANA Discussion Forum
General Category => Hearing Issues => Topic started by: spgreenfield on December 05, 2011, 10:15:00 am
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I live in a smallish city. I'm having to travel for the surgery, but I know any hearing device will take some "tinkering" to get right....should I see if there are any LOCAL experts or ENTs that have a level of knowledge in any particular devices before I choose which one?
Pam
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Hi Pam .....
Sorry if I seem to always chime in on your questions, but I was in an even worse situation than you. I live in a low populated state. No one in my state has to date been trained by Oticon Medical to program the Ponto Pro bone-anchored hearing devices. I knew this before I made arrangements to have the abutment implanted at the time of my AN surgery. I contacted Oticon Medical and found out that there are two medical centers who have trained audiologists within three hours drive from where I live.
I chose one of them and my audiologist there is a dream!! I made a total of three trips to see her ..... the initial programming and two more for fine-tuning after I had used it more extensively in different types of situations. This, of course, is not ideal if you happen to have a lot of problems with satisfactory programming or issues. I cannot say for anyone else, but I have had absolutely zero problems with mine and am very happy with the level of hearing I have with it.
I think there are two important things to remember: 1) choosing a quality product with a good track record 2) choosing an experienced and highly educated audiologist, no matter where she (or he) is located.
Clarice