One Hearing Aid or Two?
Do I really need two hearing aids?
If you have hearing loss in two ears, then you really should be wearing two devices. An optometrist never suggests wearing glasses or contact lenses for just one eye – and that is because your two eyes work together. The same goes for ears. When you have a hearing loss in both ears and aid both of them, you get a better understanding of speech, especially in group and noisy situations (like church, restaurants, etc.), better sound quality, better ability to tell direction of sounds (where a person is located when they are talking to you, or an approaching vehicle if you’re walking outdoors), wider hearing range, less whistling and feedback, and it also keeps both ears active so the hearing loss deteriorates less over time.