All our articles are written by ENT doctors. Through 6 categories – hearing, ear, hearing aid, nose, diver, tobacco – you will find medical information related to ENT pathologies (nose, throat, ears) ; hearing, hearing loss and hearing aids ; tobacco, which has a major impact on the ENT sphere, as well as a specific category, dedicated to the diver’s ear and the diver in immersion. Enjoy your reading !
Faced with a wide range of hearing aids (BTE, ITE, custom-made, pre-configured, on the internet, in opticians, in traditional stores, with a prescription, without a prescription) and with the great diversity of prices, it is difficult to make the right choice. This article aims at providing elements to enlighten the consumer and allow him to choose wisely.
Wearing a hearing aid has many benefits for social and professional life, as well as for health. Once you have accepted the idea, how do you go about getting one and what is the level of coverage for hearing aids in 2023 ?
Although wearing a hearing aid provides immediate listening comfort for people with presbycusis and is the key to a fulfilling social life, 75% of people in Europe and worldwide reject this solution. The structure of the market, the waiting time for a medical consultation, the healthcare process, the price and the out-of-pocket expenses as well as the complexity of the device are all reasons mentioned by these individuals. How to accept to wear a hearing aid and benefit from its numerous health advantages ?
Hearing impairment and presbycusis are to be distinguished in the answer to this often asked question. If, in both cases, the earlier the patient is fitted with a hearing aid, the better, in reality, things are quite different. In the case of hearing impairment, hearing aids are fitted as soon as the impairment is detected, whereas in the case of presbycusis, the first fitting of hearing aids varies between the age of 60 (pre-set hearing aids) and over 70 years for traditional hearing aids.
Wearing a hearing aid has many health, social and professional benefits. However, only 1 out of 4 presbycusiacs use them today. People with mild to moderate hearing loss are the first to be exposed to the risk of progressive isolation and depression caused by the refusal of a hearing aid.
In this special hearing file of 13 articles, we gather all the questions asked by our clients or on the web about hearing aids. We answer them point by point, to give you a clear vision and allow you to move forward in an enlightened way in your desire for hearing aids.
The brain is a fascinating machine which is, every second, subjected to an immense amount of information perceived by the 5 senses: in order to function optimally, it must sort this information and retain only that which is indispensable. This sorting is done according to the information itself, which is classified into sensory memory, working memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. Can we improve our memory ? And, if so, how can we do it ?
November 2022, like every year, is the month without tobacco and this year we will be at the 7th edition. The various speakers have prepared their weapons well in advance praising the benefits of nicotine substitutes in all its forms (patches, gums, lozenges), there hypnosis, acupuncture, the Allen Carr method, behavioral and cognitive therapies
This article is about deaf people. To be born deaf or totally deaf is to live in absolute silence, detached from all relations with the world around us. Although our sympathy goes more readily to the blind, there is certainly
Appeared in 2007, the first electronic cigarettes, or vapoteuses, arrive on the French market in 2010. We currently have more than 10 years of hindsight on this product and its impact on the cessation of smoking for
Numerous studies have sought to understand and explain the deafness of this famous composer who ended up totally deaf a decade before his death, managing to compose during this
Special mention should be made of the treatment of stress with beta blockers. It is curious that such a treatment is proposed for a discomfort, sometimes important, which does not constitute a disease
The absolute ear is defined by the ability to immediately associate a sound with a note without any prior reference, unlike the relative ear which recognizes the note according to a referent note heard (the “A” for example). Very few individuals have an absolute ear: it is estimated that one person in 10,000 has it. The beneficiary of an absolute ear thus possesses a sort
This thesis was written in 2006. Its aim was to investigate, in an objective way, if there were more diving accidents in smokers than in non-smokers and, in particular, undeserved accidents. Then, if so, to judge the speed and quality of recovery in both cases. In 2006, there were very few, if any, articles dealing with
There are many disorders of the ear. We will limit ourselves to mention the most important or the most annoying, even the most frequent. Tinnitus. Tinnitus is spreading like wildfire all over the world: it is the disease of the century. Tinnitus is a permanent noise that is often very unpleasant for the person who hears it and can make our daily life unbearable. Tinnitus can take any form
Acoustic neuroma is a benign nerve tumor developed at the expense of cells of the Schwann sheath, which coats the auditory nerve, in particular its vestibular branch, which makes it prefer the exact term of vestibular schwannoma.The nerves of the peripheral nervous system are surrounded by Schwann cells that twist around themselves along the nerve, enveloping it in its entirety, forming a stack of membranes
In the vast majority of cases, it is a child who bleeds frequently from the nose (on one or both sides) and who returns regularly to the consultation. The examination reveals small vessels on the vascular spot (the front wall of the nasal septum), forming a real tree-like structure. These vessels are fragile and bleed at the slightest local mishap (untimely scratching, chronic purulent or
What is commonly called “cold” is a rhinopharyngitis – that is to say an affection of the upper airways (nasal cavity and pharynx) – very often benign, mainly seasonal (winter) but not only, triggered in 40% of the cases by a specific virus (the rhinovirus) but also by other types of viruses known since “always”: the adenovirus, the respiratory syncytial virus, the influenza virus (the
