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Open fit molds
Wed, 07/21/2010 - 12:34
OK, I'm in the trial period for a pair of open ear (BTE) aids and I'm still getting a lot of whistling/feedback at times. I've found that if I put my finger in my ear, the whistling/feedback stops; to me this means that the mold in my ear does not fit tight enough. Could this be a correct assumption on my part? Do the molds come in different sizes? And yes, I do need to go back to my specialist.
My understanding of an "open fit" aid is that they are not meant to be tight fitting. The idea is to let the frequencies which you can hear naturally through and those that you cannot hear are amplified by the HA. After twenty years of wearing tight-fitting aids, my new Unitron Moxi RIC aids are the best thing that's happened to my hearing in a long time and it is because they do not fit snuggly in the ear canal!