We’ve read some cases on the internet where patients lose their hearings aids when taking off their protective face masks. Whether it’s the over the ear loop or the over the head type mask, a hearing aid can easily be snagged and fall to the ground to be stepped on or lost completely.
We’ve recreated the scenario using a hearing aid that we would fit on our patients. On each attempt, we could not effectively make the hearing aid fall to the ground. Even so, this is more likely to happen when the hearing aid is dislodged from behind the ear, which we did see happen as a result of removing the mask on a few occasions.
So take care when removing your masks everyone! And if one is lost, we’re still here to help with the replacement or repair process curbside or porch-side.