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The Hearing Aid
Advice Centre Ltd, Audiology House, Oakwood Park, Livingston, Scotland
EH54 8AW
01506 420 519
0800 169 6862


All dispensers are registered with the Health
Professions Council - click the image above to check the
register.
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Current page:
How We Hear |
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How
we hear: The Physiology of Sound |
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Movement of the stapes in the oval window produces
compression waves within the perilymph.
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These vibrations are translated by hair cells in the
organ
of corti into nerve impulses and sent via the cochlear nerve to
the brain.
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Nerve impulses are sent through the brain stem and into the acoustic
centres in the cerebral cortex of the opposite temporal lobe.
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"The difference my hearing aids have made to my life
has changed it completely - I wish I'd got them years ago!"
Mrs Farmer
"The hearing aids are first class and so is the attention
I receive"
Mrs Laidlaw
"My two new hearing aids are excellent and the service
has been just as good. I'm completely satisfied"
Mr Aitken
"Getting my hearing aids is the best thing that's ever
happened to me! I no longer need to sit alone, I can now join in with the
conversation"
Mrs Cherrie
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