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09/29/2025

FACT 📣📣📣

First, what is Tinnitus? It is the perception of sound when no external sound is present. It can be described as:
✅Ringing in the ears
✅Buzzing, hissing, humming, or whooshing

Not a disease, but a Symptom! Tinnitus is usually a sign of something else affecting the auditory system. Common contributors include:
☑️Noise-induced hearing damage
☑️Age-related hearing loss
☑️Earwax buildup or middle ear problems
☑️Ototoxic medications (certain antibiotics, chemotherapy, aspirin in high doses)
☑️Stress, anxiety, and circulatory issues

While there’s no single “cure” for tinnitus, there are proven ways to reduce its impact and help you live more comfortably. Today’s hearing care strategies can include:

🎧 Sound Therapy: Gentle background noise or customized programs to mask the phantom sound.
👂 Prescriptive Hearing Aids: The stimulation of the auditory nerve calms down the brain's need to "fill in the gaps" of the missing pitches due to hearing loss.
🧘 Stress & Relaxation Techniques: Mindfulness, breathing, and lifestyle changes that calm the nervous system
💬 Professional Support — Audiologists and psychologists can provide personalized treatment plans

BOTTOM LINE: You don’t have to “just live with it.” With the right tools and care, tinnitus can be managed so it no longer takes center stage in your life.

👉 If you or someone you love experiences tinnitus, talk to a hearing healthcare provider — relief is possible. Give us a call today at (907) 451-4327.

09/26/2025

Tonight is the Night: We’re rolling out the red carpet to celebrate 5 amazing years of Aurora Audiology!

Hope to see you there 💃🍾👂

09/24/2025

📣FACT 📣

Just like annual eye exams or dental cleanings, hearing tests should be performed every year, even if you think your hearing is “fine.”

Why?
📉 Early Detection. Hearing loss often develops gradually, and many people don’t notice the changes right away.
🧠 Brain Health. Regular testing can catch changes linked to cognition and memory early on.
❤️ Whole-Body Connection. Hearing is tied to cardiovascular health, balance, and mental well-being.
🎧 Technology Fit. If you wear hearing aids, yearly tests help keep them programmed to your needs.

BOTTOM LINE: Don’t wait until you’re struggling... make hearing screenings part of your yearly wellness routine.

09/22/2025

📣 MYTH 📣

FACT: Your ears are designed to clean themselves, and poking objects inside them is both ineffective and dangerous. Here’s how it really works:

✅Earwax is made in glands near the eardrum, about 1 inch inside the canal.
✅Skin in the canal slowly migrates outward, carrying the wax with it.
✅The wax coats and protects the skin, trapping debris and shielding your ear from wind, dust, and temperature changes.

When you insert objects like Q-Tips, bobby pins, or (yikes!) ear candles, you risk:

❌Pushing wax deeper and blocking the canal
❌Scratching or bruising delicate skin → infection
❌Puncturing the eardrum (yes, it happens)

What about Ear Candles? NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. Burns and injury from candles, plus, no, they don’t “suck out” wax... if they did, the vacuum function would likely rip your ear drum out! Also, that crumbled debris you see in the candle is from the candle itself.

BOTTOM LINE: Let your ears do their job. If you suspect a wax blockage, see an audiologist or ENT doctor. Wax softeners and water flushing systems are the most ideal for at-home maintenance if you must DYI.

09/21/2025

Today, we celebrate 5 'EARS of Aurora Audiology 🎉

On September 21, 2020, I took a leap into the unknown and opened Aurora Audiology during the height of COVID. What started as a dream has grown into something far greater than I could have imagined. Each year has carried its own lessons, challenges, and triumphs:

2020 – Taking a brave step forward in uncertain times.
2021 – Building connections in our community as a new woman leader and all-female staff.
2022 – Expanding services to include cochlear implant and veteran care.
2023 – Strengthening our team through cohesiveness and awareness.
2024 – Nurturing relationships with our patients while growing our team.
2025 – Embracing mistakes, navigating unexpected challenges, and beginning anew with fresh appreciation for my staff, our patients, and our community.

I am beyond grateful for every person who has supported Aurora Audiology, whether by trusting us with your care, cheering us on, or working alongside us.

Here’s to five incredible years, and to the many more ahead...

Yours Truly,
Dr. Hughes💜

09/19/2025

🤩 FEEDBACK FRIDAY 🤩

The highest compliment we can receive from those we serve as a small, local business, is feedback from people like you!

As "Interior Alaska's Hearing Healthcare Provider," it is our responsibility to provide ethical, comprehensive and professional hearing healthcare services with honesty, compassion, and respect. It is our passion to develop meaningful relationships that go beyond the clinic-patient interaction and are based on an unsurpassed personal connection from the moment a patient contacts our clinic and continues long after the initial interaction.

Thank you for your business and trust in our team! 💜

09/17/2025

📣 MYTH 📣

FACT: Modern hearing aids are sleek, tiny, and smarter than ever! Think about cellphones in the 1990s vs. now. Remember those giant flip phones or "bricks" as we use to call them? Today’s smartphones are slim, powerful, and stylish. Hearing aid technology has gone through the same revolution.

Today’s devices are:

🔋 Rechargeable (no more tiny batteries)
💧 Water-resistant
📲 Bluetooth compatible (stream calls, music, TV directly to your ears!)
👓 Eyeglass-friendly (designed to sit comfortably behind the ear)

Most people wear small, discreet devices with a thin, almost invisible wire that delivers sound right into the ear canal. And with customizable domes or micro-molds, they’re tailored for comfort and clarity. Yes, these devices stay in place for any level of activity. And if they don't stay in place, making you paranoid about losing them, your hearing healthcare provider and help improve the physical fit with a million options!

BOTTOM LINE: Forget the squealing beige gadgets of your grandparents’ generation... today’s hearing aids are more like mini high-tech wearables.

09/15/2025

📣 MYTH 📣

FACT: Any level of hearing difficulty, even when results look “normal," can benefit from intervention.

Hearing loss can occur in two main ways:

✅At the ear itself — where sound isn’t reaching the brain properly.
✅In the brain’s processing — where sound is heard, but not understood clearly.

Even mild or hidden hearing loss affects your life. Without clear sound input, the brain is forced to work harder, leading to:

☑️Social withdrawal and isolation
☑️Reduced confidence in conversation
☑️Struggles with memory and focus
☑️Increased risk of depression

WHY treatment matters: The auditory nerve thrives on stimulation. If sound doesn’t flow through the hearing system, the nerve fibers weaken. “Use it or lose it” applies here. Once auditory nerve fibers are gone, they can’t regenerate, making later treatment much harder.

BOTTOM LINE: Don’t wait for hearing loss to become “severe.” The sooner you address it, the more you protect your brain, your communication, and your connections with others.

09/10/2025

📣 MYTH 📣

FACT: Hearing isn’t only about volume — it’s also about clarity. Our ears and brain work together to process sound in two key ways:

✅Loudness (intensity): This is the “volume” part or how strong the sound is. Vowels in speech (like A, E, O) carry that deep, bass-like sound.
✅Clarity (timing & detail): Consonants (like S, T, F) are softer, high-pitched sounds that help us tell words apart. They act like the edges and punctuation of language.

During the "early" stages of hearing loss, most people don’t complain of “everything being too quiet.” Instead, they notice things like:

☑️Struggling to follow conversation in crowds or noisy restaurants
☑️Turning the TV louder, but still missing what the news anchor is saying.
☑️Hearing background music clearly, but not the dialogue.

BOTTOM LINE: Early on, your brain often compensates for loss in hearing sensitivity by using lip reading and facial cues without you realizing it. Don't wait until you're "old" to check your hearing status! The longer hearing loss exists over time, the harder it is to fill those clarity gaps and restore the use of hearing to the brain!

09/08/2025

📣 MYTH 📣

(This is actually the most common myths of them all!)

FACT: Hearing loss can affect anyone, at ANY age. The ear doesn’t have an infinite lifespan. By our 40s and 50s, decades of noise exposure, medications, and everyday wear-and-tear can start to take a toll. But hearing loss can begin much earlier:

☑️Noise: One loud blast from a firearm, or years of exposure to tools (construction, mining, even dental drills or salon dryers) can cause permanent damage.
☑️Medications: Common drugs like aspirin, some antibiotics, painkillers, and chemotherapy can impact hearing.
☑️Genetics: Some people inherit conditions that cause hearing loss in young adulthood.
☑️Newborns & Children: Even babies in the NICU may develop hearing loss from early medical challenges.

BOTTOM LINE: No age is exempt. The only way to know if your hearing status is changing, is to routinely get diagnostic evaluations of your sensitivity to sounds and how your brain processes these sound.

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1901 Airport Way, Suite 102
Fairbanks, AK
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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm

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+19074514327

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http://www.auroraaud.com/

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