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Is It Time to Upgrade Your Hearing Aids?

Do you love walking around Antique Alley looking for treasures from years past? While antiques may be nice to look at, they don’t belong in your ears. Below we review the signs it’s time to…
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The Life-Changing Benefits of Hearing Aids

Untreated hearing loss can impact more than just your ability to hear; it can affect many aspects of your health and emotional well-being. Fortunately, many with hearing loss can be treated with hearing aids. Continue…
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How to Care for Your Hearing Aid Batteries

Some modern hearing aids now have built-in rechargeable batteries, but many still rely on disposable button batteries. If you have the second type, it’s important to know how to care for and store them, as…
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How to Pick the Best Hearing Aid

Each hearing aid manufacturer produces a full line of hearing aids available in a wide variety of styles. Determining which one is best for you can be challenging, so your Audiologist takes a number of…
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Are Tinnitus Supplements Harmful or Helpful?

Even though tinnitus is a common symptom, affecting as many as 60 million Americans, there is still a general lack of information among patients and providers. This has led to an increase in misinformation and…
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Surfer’s Ear
Those with frequent exposure to cold water – most commonly surfers and swimmers – often suffer from reactive exostosis, an inflammation of the bone in the ear canal that leads to the formation of new…
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How Loud Is Too Loud?

We’ve all heard that loud noises can cause hearing loss, but figuring out which sounds in particular can be dangerous to your hearing can be complicated. Below is a breakdown of how you can determine…
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We’re Partnering with Lions to Help Low-Income Families Get Hearing Aids

Hearing Services of Santa Barbara is proud to announce a partnership with the Lions Club Sight and Hearing Foundation to help recycle hearing aids, which helps make essential hearing technology available to hard-of-hearing individuals from…
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Are Smokers at a Greater Risk of Hearing Loss?

Smoking cigarettes has long been linked with a number of health conditions. Researchers were interested in whether this negative association would also be seen in those who have since given up the habit. Their findings…
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Combining Pediatric Hearing Loss with Playtime to Test Hearing

At Hearing Services of Santa Barbara, we treat patients of all ages and use special tools to help meet the needs of even our youngest patients. We have a special system that uses VRA (Visual…