Plum Resident Benefits From New Hearing Aid Technology
A hearing aid that uses teeth to conduct sound is restoring hearing for patients with few other options.
For about two years, Paul Getsy was pretty sure he’d never hear out of his right ear again. Doctors didn’t know why his hearing suddenly vanished. Getsy just woke up one morning and it was gone. He tried two different steroid treatments, but neither worked. He couldn’t find a hearing aid that would make a difference. “There really wasn’t a good one that addressed my particular problem,” said Getsy, 48, of Plum. Somewhat ironically, Getsy worked for SoundBite Communications, providing organizations with customer communications platforms. Trying to access his company’s website one day, Getsy accidently brought up the wrong site—one that introduced him to Sonitus Medical's SoundBite Hearing System, which would eventually restore hearing in …
