As an Audiologist, I have practiced for 34 years and treated
thousands of patients. I have a hearing
loss myself and wear hearing instruments.
In the last few years, the hearing instrument technology has exceeded my
expectations. However, in June of this year,
Dr. Lance Greer and I traveled to Florida for an international hearing
conference which focused on the release of a completely new type of hearing
instrument.
This new hearing instrument called the OPN (Open) from
Oticon out of Denmark, was developed by a team of 250 auditory scientists,
auditory engineers, and technicians who worked for over six years to develop
this new technology.
Technological limitations of previous hearing instruments
have led to use of directionality to make speech coming from the front clear,
while suppressing the rest of the sound environment. In complex listening environments where sound
sources are many, previous hearing technology is too slow to keep up with fast
and many sound changes.
When you cut out too many background sounds around you, it
is like wearing hearing blinders and too many critical speech sounds cannot be
captured for our brains. Closing down
too many sounds, under-stimulates the brain and deprives it of the context
needed for understanding words.
The new Velox chip in the OPN (open) hearing instruments
processes 50 times faster than before.
It is precise and fast enough to support our brain in making sense of
sound and words. This chip has 64 sound
channels. It analyzes the sounds around
you more than 100 times per second. It
can handle more than 12 million operations per second.
These new hearing instruments provide 30 percent improvement
in speech understanding—even in the most noisy environments—compared to the
previous state-of-the-art technology. It
provides 20 percent less listening effort in noise and provides 20 percent more
capacity to remember.
We have fit these instruments of numerous patients and
everyone has been overwhelmed with their ability to understand in the most
noisy situations. These instruments are
truly in a league of their own!!
This amazing technology is fit on a 60 day trial
period. Call 688-8866 to wear these
instruments home and experience hearing like you have never experienced
before!!! http://hearingaiddoctor.com/
Kimball B. Forbes, MCD
Audiologist of the highest order of the Elks
Kimball B. Forbes, MCD, has enjoyed helping patients
hear well again for 34 years, making him the longest-tenured Audiologist
in southern Utah. He earned a Master’s of Communication Disorders in
Audiology from Brigham Young University and went on to establish 11
hearing clinics in Utah and Nevada, all of which continue to thrive
under his direction and leadership. Dr. Forbes specializes in hearing
aid sales and service; counseling; earmolds and protective hearing
devices; and diagnostic medical hearing assessments for adults and
children. His own hearing loss makes him uniquely qualified to treat
patients using the latest hearing technologies. He is married to wife
Jonna; the couple are the proud parents of eight children and nine
grandchildren. He enjoys visiting his children and grandchildren as
well as his parents. He and Jonna love serving in the LDS temple and
teach in the church. He also enjoys reading history and biographies and
watching the Hallmark Channel.
