Can hearing aids cause a lazy ear, or cause my hearing loss to worsen?
No, wearing hearing aids will not make your ears dependent on the devices. When you remove the hearing aids, your hearing loss will be the same as before you inserted them. In fact, the opposite is true. The longer your hearing loss goes uncorrected, the longer your brain has to forget what speech sounds like. This may decrease an individual’s potential for improvement once he/she devices to move forward if that individual has put off getting hearing aids for a long time.
