Oticon fitting rationale

From my experience they would have to be molded

When I was fitted with a pair of Rexton CIC at Costco, I complained about one of them not being tight enough, although it’s not that loose. The Costco fitter took it to her desk and put on some kind of clear acrylic layer right on top of the shell. Then she sanded it out to make it more smooth.

Perhaps your fitter can employ this approach as well if so equipped. But if your hearing aids are still well within the warranty or fitting period, it’s probably better to have them rebuild a new mold, and this time give them instruction to make it more snug by telling them that the previous one was a little loose.

I tried all brands and finally bought the new Oticon. In restaurants or noisy groups I’m completely lost. The background noise cancels out voices. My loss is 65%and I’m wondering if the person that was completely happy with their had only a minor hearing loss.
Thanks for your help,
Shirley

I’ve found that how well I hear in noise depends on how much/often I am in similar noisy situations. I wear iic HAs which by definition don’t function in noise as well as RICs (at least for oticon [1]). When starting out I visited my audi every two weeks for a few months. Now 8 months later I’ve done 3 sessions to fine tune female soft voices so I can understand my teenage daughter. I am extremely satisfied with the results.

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@Volusiano thank you for mentioning the acrylic layer. My audi referred me to the local oticon service center. They applied additional layers and the fitting is now much better. It had a significant effect on the accoustics and speech in noise is also better. again, thanks!