Human hearing is designed for two ears. The technical term is binaural listening, and the auditory system is wired for it to allow for the best possible hearing and understanding.

If a professional evaluation by a hearing professional indicates that you have hearing loss in both ears, two hearing aids may be recommended. While it may be tempting to try to limit the cost by going with a single hearing aid, the truth is that one hearing aid simply cannot do the job of two.

If you have Hearing loss in both ears but use hearing aid in one ear only, your hearing is not expected to be up to the mark, MONOCLES i.e. glasses in one ear eye have become obsolete long back. You have probably never seen anyone wearing glasses in one eye only. So why wear a hearing aid in one ear only? Just as we use spectacles for both
ears, HEARING AIDS must also be used in both ears if you have a hearing loss in both ears.

Although there has been heated debate for years regarding the benefits provided by two hearing aids versus one, it is generally agreed that, unless there are significant contraindications, binaural amplification is the arrangement of choice. The source of this controversy is related to the fact that the burden of proof has been placed upon those advocating binaural amplification to provide evidence that two hearing aids are better than one.

(Ross, 1980).

The advantages most readily apparent with binaural hearing aids are improved localization and improved speech recognition in noise. These binaural advantages have been repeatability demonstrated throughout the literature when the subject tasks have been made sufficiently difficult (Ross, 1980; Pollack, 1988).

• Providing a full listening experience
• Gives your brain the information it needs
• Help you detect sound direction
• Contributes to better listening
• Reduces the need for volume
• Help you separate voices from noise
• Mask tinnitus
• Deliver higher satisfaction with hearing aids overall
• Provide more relaxed listening

If you have deafness in both ears, you must use binaural hearing aids. This will enhance your hearing capacity and help in better understanding of speech.

Our brain processes the sound inputs from the 2 ear together, if there is inadequate input from one ear, the processing of the sound in the brain is improper. This leads to poor speech understanding and difficulty to hear sounds in the presence of background noise.

A hearing aid in both ears is recommended if the hearing loss is present in both ears. Advantages of binaural amplification are numerous, understanding of speech in presence of background noise and sound localization. The amplification required from each hearing aid is also lesser if you use hearing aid in both ears. This not only reduces chances of any acoustic feedback (i.e. whistling sound from the hearing aid). But also reduces the distortion of the sound.

The binaural amplification will help in providing improved sound quality than aided in only one ear. It also helps in listening to wider sound range the person localization will improve even in distance hearing.

People with hearing loss in both ears, when aided In only one ear, have complaints of not hearing when two three people talk at a time irrespective of the age of the patient…this is due to absence of identification of speech sound is from the unaided ear. When aided in both ears the person will experience improved identification of speech
sounds.

Binaural amplification will result in less hearing deterioration and hearing is not stressful and becomes pleasant

Binaural hearing aids mostly help in group situations.

Binaural amplification helps in understanding the hearing aid and endure its benefits…it also helps in auditory synchronization.