Many providers limit their focus to only one or two hearing aid manufacturers. It makes their job easier but can limit the options available to you. At Hear So Good, we maintain our technical expertise across all six major manufacturers, and several smaller ones, enabling us to best serve you. Working with such a large number of manufacturers ensures that you have access to the newest technologies and the most appropriate styles and features.

Dr. Weissman has a leg up on other providers because he is an engineer by education and a former software engineer by experience. He fundamentally understands the technology used in hearing aids and Smart Phones. Dr. Weissman can rapidly assimilate the latest technology and show you how to use it for optimum benefit.

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Hearing aids often are not recommended after an evaluation. Dr. Weissman is focused on your overall health and will only recommend a treatment plan that includes hearing aids if his evaluation indicates that hearing aids are the best option.

Dr. Weissman spends a lot of time preparing reports and will give you advice about how to protect the hearing you have left, how to optimize your ability to understand speech in different situations, and how to treat or cope with your tinnitus.

Based on the outcome of your tests and his professional clinical judgement, Dr. Weissman will suggest to you and your primary care physician, options for further treatment, testing or specialist referrals to enhance your quality of life whether it be related to communications, tinnitus, vertigo, or risk for falling.

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Lee Weissman is a licensed medical professional audiologist who takes your health seriously. Dr. Weissman is skilled at differential diagnosis and can identify a hearing loss that may be due to a condition requiring medical treatment. Certain hearing losses, especially those with a sudden onset, can be reversed if treated with steroids within 72 hours. If sudden hearing loss - typically caused by an inner ear infection or inflammation - is not aggressively treated soon enough, a permanent and debilitating hearing loss not treatable with hearing aids can occur.

Other hearing losses can be due to congestion or fluid buildup behind the eardrum, or some disorder of the tiny bones (ossicular chain) behind the eardrum. If you have any of these conditions, hearing aids may not be necessary and Dr. Weissman will refer you to an otolaryngologist (Ear Nose and Throat doctor) for treatment.

In fact, The FDA considers any of the following symptoms Red Flags that warrant further evaluation before purchasing hearing aids:

• Visible congenital or traumatic deformity of the ear.
• History of active drainage from the ear in the previous 90 days.
• History of sudden or rapidly progressive hearing loss within the previous 90 days.
• Acute or chronic dizziness.
• Unilateral hearing loss of sudden or recent onset within the previous 90 days.
• Audiometric air-bone gap equal to or greater than 15 decibels at 500 Hz, 1,000 Hz, and 2,000 Hz.
• Visible evidence of significant cerumen accumulation or a foreign body in the ear canal.
• Pain or discomfort in the ear.

In addition to referring you to appropriate medical specialists for the above FDA Red Flags prior to fitting you with hearing aids, we also refer you for one or both of  the following findings.

• A significant hearing difference between your ears and other findings that indicate there is a chance that the hearing nerve is affected.
• A sudden change in tinnitus (ear ringing/noise) severity.

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