Expert Articles
How to Improve the Performance of Your Hearing Aids: Try These 3 Things
Wearing hearing aids should enhance your life, allowing you to engage fully in conversations and your favorite activities. However, frustration can set in when your hearing aids are not performing optimally. Whether you’re struggling with sound quality, whistling and...
Why Are My Hearing Aids Whistling? Top 3 Tips to Fix Your Devices at Home
When you notice your hearing aids whistling or buzzing, it can be frustrating—you've invested in your hearing health, and it's crucial that your devices function correctly. Just as you would take your car to a mechanic for unexpected noises, your hearing devices...
Loving Local Businesses in 2025: Your Hand-Picked Winners!
If you’ve known us for a while, you’ll know that we’re all about supporting local businesses here at Duncan Hearing Healthcare. As an independent business ourselves, it’s important to us to spread the word and support other local businesses around our community. We...
Announcing Our 2024 Hear for the Holidays Winners!
I’m delighted to share the winners of our annual Hear for the Holidays campaign. If you aren’t aware, each holiday season we offer up complimentary hearing care to a handful of deserving winners across our different clinics, including a free hearing test and GN...
What Are Your Options to Address a Hearing Loss in 2025?
If you’re reading this, you’ve taken the first step in the right direction for addressing your hearing loss challenges with the help of professional guidance and recommendations. With every website selling you something different and a host of solutions at varying...
Can I Put Hydrogen Peroxide In My Ear?
You can find hydrogen peroxide at any local pharmacy or grocery store. I used to work with an ear, nose, and throat physician who would ask people to put a mixture of 3% peroxide and water in an ear before coming in for their earwax removal appointments, just to help...
Understanding Presbycusis: What Causes Age-Related Hearing Loss?
Hearing loss is often associated with an older age bracket of 70-90 years old, and there’s some credence to that assumption—age-related hearing loss, or presbycusis, is the number one cause of hearing loss across America. Age-related hearing loss, in our opinion, is a...
Auditory Function & Fall Risk
It’s no secret that your hearing is connected to your balance; your vestibular system resides within your inner ear and helps make sure that you’re feeling steady on your feet. I recently came across this study by Joseph Sakumura, AuD, and Richard Gans, PhD,...
The Silent Epidemic: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Children
When we think of hearing loss, many of us assume it’s something that happens as we get older. However, noise-induced hearing loss is becoming a significant issue in younger generations, especially children. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, around 12.5%...
How to Use Our Physician Resources Page
As physicians, we all need to work together to help the patients of our community thrive, no matter which healthcare world we work in. Our team is proud to work with so many great physicians across Massachusetts, and we’re not afraid to admit that sometimes we also...
