A new study of 46,000 households by the Better Hearing Institute has found that there are nearly twice as many tinnitus sufferers in the U.S. than previously believed—close to thirty million Americans. And for many of these patients, hearing aids significantly helped them with their tinnitus. If you or a loved one is afflicted with [...]
By Cheryl Tanita, M.S., Au.D. Shohet Ear Associates is the first practice in Orange County to offer the SoundBite™ Hearing System, an innovative approach to treating patients with single-sided deafness. SoundBite is the world’s first removable and non-surgical hearing solution to use the well-established principle of bone conduction to imperceptibly transmit sound via the teeth [...]
By Joni Doherty, MD, PhD Once again, I had the opportunity to join my colleagues on a medical mission in October as part of Global ENT Outreach. Our trip this time took us to El Salvador, where in the course of ten days we performed over 40 ear procedures on some of the country’s most [...]
Those of you who have heard about the totally implantable hearing aid called the Envoy Esteem may be interested in a scientific paper just published November 17 in the medical journal, Otology & Neurotology. The paper is co-authored by me and my colleagues who participated in the clinical trials for Esteem, Drs. Eric M. Kraus, [...]
A new study suggests that men who take Viagra or similar type drugs could be at an increased risk for long-term hearing loss.
If you or a loved one is experiencing diminished hearing, ringing in the ears or balance problems, you may need the services of an audiologist. Audiologists are an essential part of the team of health care professionals involved in evaluating, diagnosing and treating hearing and balance problems in adults and children.
Selecting the right device to help with hearing loss can be a complicated process. We created our online Hearing Device Selector to help you decide which type and style of device might be right for you. Our Hearing Device Selector was developed by the Shohet Ear Associates team to help you narrow your search on your own time, in the privacy of your home, without visiting multiple websites.
According to an article that recently appeared in ScienceDaily, scientists have developed a test that can screen all of the genes known to cause deafness in a single run, rather than the time-consuming and expensive process that had to be used previously. Pinpointing the exact genetic cause of inherited deafness involved sequencing one gene at [...]
In my last blog, I discussed the disturbing results of a new research study that found one in five American teenagers already has some degree of hearing loss----a startling 31 percent increase since the late 1980s. The study results were recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and showed that the number [...]
An article in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post features a touching article on how the latest implantable hearing technology has changed the lives of a sister and her brother.I performed the revision surgery on Mary Kay Windham with the Envoy Esteem implantable hearing aid in May 2005 as part of the clinical [...]