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7. Use your telephone
Often, you can hear the telephone clearly with your hearing instrument in the microphone programme. Hold
the telephone handset 1 inch (2-3cm) from your ear and tilt the receiver outwards a little.
See whether or not the telephone sounds better if you switch your hearing instrument to the telecoil pro-
gramme. Read about this on page 26.
Your hearing instrument meets strict international regulations. Therefore, it should be possible to use a
GSM telephone in most cases. However, in some circumstances, disturbance might be audible through
your hearing instrument.
8. Use your instrument all day
Using your hearing instrument and practicing with it is the best way to learn to hear again. Even if you can
hear without an instrument in some cases. Try to wear your instrument all day. In that way you will benefit
the most.
Of course, a hearing instrument cannot restore natural hearing, but it will help you make the most of your
hearing as it is today.
Go beyond these eight steps and discover the world of sound around you. Do the things you enjoy and
listen to the sounds from your environment.
Warning to hearing care practitioners
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Special care should be exercised in selecting and fitting a hearing instrument(s) whose maximum sound
pressure level exceeds 132 dB SPL with an IEC 60711: 1981 occluded ear simulator, because there may be
a risk of impairing the remaining hearing of the hearing instrument user.
