Sizing & Fitting Lyric
Lyric® is an off-the-shelf device designed for same-day office fittings. Lyric devices come in ten specific sizes (five for the right ear and five for the left ear) that are designed to fit a range of ear canal widths. Practices offering Lyric will be stocked with initial quantities of each size of Lyric device. Offices are also supplied with Lyric-specific sizing kits and slider forceps that will allow trained hearing professionals to measure a patient’s ear canal for candidacy and size.
Once a patient’s ear canal has been measured and determined adequate in size to accommodate Lyric, a device size is selected and the device is custom programmed for the patient using the wireless Lyric HandFit® programming system. After programming, the Lyric device is placed in the ear canal at the measured insertion depth using the Lyric slider forceps and then turned on. After the devices are placed, patients are counseled on their new devices. If needed, the device program can be adjusted with the HandFit system while Lyric is in the ear. Patients are provided with the SoundLync™ adjustment tool to adjust the volume, turn the device on and off, put the device in sleep mode (which returns hearing to non-amplified level), and remove the device if needed.
