title: Psychological aspects of patients with binaural hearing aids.
abstract: 9 of 10 persons with hearing defects can only overcome this handicap through the use of hearing aids. Only a small group needs body aids, binaural ear-level aids should be the routine for all the rest. In order to prevent deprivation of the acoustic sense, the whole hearing organ should be stimulated from the very beginning of the treatment with an aid in the right and in the left ear. Through routine prescription of binaural aids from the start, the psychological problem based on hearing aid use would be overcome.
mesh_terms: D006310:Hearing Aids; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000523:psychology*; D006312:Hearing Loss, Bilateral / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans