As we have seen many times over and over again, ear wax tends to build up in people's ears for lots of reasons, often impacting on one's hearing. We are able to remove ear wax by suction. This is quick, easy, and the most comfortable and preferred method. Where we find that ear wax has hardened and become impacted, we apply olive oil ear drops for softening ear and ease of removal.

This includes tests like tympanometry which measures the movement of your eardrum and helps identifying conditions such as a perforation, a hole in the ear drum, or effusion, which is fluid build up behind the ear drum limiting the transmission of sound. Acoustic reflex testing measure a muscle contraction in response to loud sounds. These tests help evaluate the function of the middle ear. If properly administered and interpreted, acoustic reflex test results can provide information about the function of the middle ear, inner ear/hearing nerve, facial nerve, and part of the auditory portion of the brainstem.

The "hearing test" part of the assessment is called puretone audiometry. You will sit inside our certified audiometric hearing test booth wearing headphones or insert earphones and be asked to respond by pressing a response button, or by raising your hand, each time you hear a tone, from low pitch to high pitch. This helps determine your hearing treshold for different frequencies.

A bone conductor may also be used, which is placed on to the mastoid bone behind your ear and which transmits sound via the skull directly to the inner ear, by-passing the middle ear.

You'll be asked to repeat words spoken at different volumes to assess your ability to understand speech. This can also include a test with background noise to see how well you hear words in real-world situations. This test is used to cross-reference check the puretone hearing tresholds and helps to determine the benefit from hearing aids where wearing them is recommended and helpful.

The hearing test tresholds are plotted on to a chart called audiogram which then is used to display the state of your hearing, and if there is hearing loss, the type and degree of it. After the hearing test has been completed, we will explain the results to you and give you our recommendations on the most appropriate course of action. If hearing aids are recommended, we can discuss the most appropriate solution for your individual needs, taking into consideration your hearing loss, lifestyle and budget.

At Acoustix, we don't provide free hearing tests as we take a comprehensive approach to testing your hearing, which means that you will receive a complete, independent and accurate assessment.

You may have already found that “free hearing testing” is often a sales tactic designed to try and sell you a product. Or "free hearing screening" is a pre-cursor to a full hearing test i.e. an advertising “trick” to attract new customers.
We don’t do tricks at Acoustix.