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Hearing Aid Fitting
Your Hearing Aid Fitting at Anne Arundel Audiology
A hearing aid fitting in Glen Burnie, MD with Dr. Britney Ometz, Au.D. runs a full appointment, not a quick handoff at the counter. She programs your devices to the audiogram from your evaluation, fine-tunes them for speech, quiet, and noisy rooms, then verifies the output inside your own ears with Real Ear Measurement. Before you leave, you practice insertion, cleaning, charging, and Bluetooth pairing yourself.
Dr. Britney Ometz, Au.D.
Owner & Audiologist
Verified Fittings and Follow-Up Care That Continues
A fitting is only as good as what follows it. Retail chains routinely skip Real Ear Measurement, the verification step that proves your aids hit prescription targets across every frequency. Dr. Ometz performs it on every fitting and repeats it at follow-ups. Your 45-day trial then tests the settings against real life at work, in restaurants, and on the phone, and you come back to the same audiologist who fit you, every visit.
Hearing Aid Fitting FAQs
Common questions about a hearing aid fitting in Glen Burnie: how long the appointment takes, how Real Ear Measurement verifies your settings, what adjustment feels like, and what follow-up covers.
Plan on about an hour for your fitting at our Crain Towers office. Dr. Ometz loads your hearing profile into the devices, shapes the response for speech, quiet rooms, and background noise, then confirms the output with Real Ear Measurement before you wear them out the door.
The rest of the visit is hands-on. You practice putting the aids in and taking them out, cleaning them, charging or changing the battery, and pairing them to your phone, and you leave with the settings written down. Custom in-the-ear styles get a physical fit check as well. Call 410-766-6320 if you need to schedule around a work day.
Factory settings are a starting point, never the finish. Dr. Ometz programs each device to the degree and shape of your loss, then runs Real Ear Measurement, a probe microphone measurement that reads what the aid is actually delivering inside your ear canal and compares it against your prescription targets.
That step matters because two people with matching audiograms can need very different settings once ear canal size and shape are accounted for. Measuring instead of estimating is standard practice in audiology, and it is one of the first things retail outlets drop. REM is repeated at follow-up visits so the devices keep hitting target as your hearing changes. Our real ear measurement page explains the process in more detail.
Most patients settle in within two to four weeks of daily wear, and the brain keeps refining for a few months after that. Hearing loss usually creeps in over years, so your first days back at full volume can feel busy. Paper rustles, your own footsteps land, the refrigerator hums.
Wear time is what shortens the adjustment, which is why aids left in a drawer stay uncomfortable for months. Dr. Ometz sets expectations before you leave the fitting and schedules a check-in for exactly this stage. At that visit she softens whatever is too sharp, lifts whatever is too soft, and adds programs for the places you actually spend time: the car, restaurants, church, and the phone.
Yes. Every set of hearing aids fit at Anne Arundel Audiology comes with a service plan, and most patients come back a couple of weeks in so the programming can be tuned against real listening rather than a sound booth.
After that you move into routine care: cleanings, clean-and-check visits, repeat Real Ear Measurement, and minor in-office repairs. Because Dr. Ometz is the only provider here, the person adjusting your aids in year four is the person who fit them in year one. If a drive to Glen Burnie is hard to manage, many programming changes can be made through remote hearing care. Call 410-766-6320 with questions about what your plan covers.
Take 45 Days to Be Sure
Every set of hearing aids fitted at Anne Arundel Audiology comes with a 45-day trial period. Wear your devices where life actually happens — at work, around the dinner table, and out across Glen Burnie. Real-world listening is the only test that counts. If they aren't right for you, return them within 45 days and the cost of the devices is refunded; the professional services already provided are billed as a service fee.
Patient Reviews
Anne Arundel Audiology holds a 5.0-star rating across 197 Google reviews from Glen Burnie patients and their families.
It Is Never Too Soon to Start Hearing Better
Glen Burnie patients rate Dr. Ometz 5.0 stars across 197 reviews for unhurried, doctor-led care built around your hearing goals.
Serving Glen Burnie & Northern Anne Arundel County
Visit Us in Glen Burnie
You will find us in Suite 509 of Crain Towers on Crain Highway, next door to Crab Town USA and around the corner from UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center.
- 410-766-6320
- Fax: 410-755-8766
- [email protected]
- Doctor-owned, women-owned hearing clinic
- Every visit with Dr. Britney Ometz, Au.D.
- Real Ear Measurement verification on every fitting
- All major insurances accepted, including Medicare
- Wheelchair accessible entrance and parking
“Dr Ometz had a very welcoming personality to this second time patient. I saw her for the utilization of a new device to remove excess wax from my ears...I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her for an audiology evaluation and hearing aid devices if needed.”— Don T., Verified Google Review
Anne Arundel Audiology
Hearing Clinic1600 Crain Hwy S., Suite 509, Glen Burnie, MD 21061
| Monday | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Tuesday | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Wednesday | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Thursday | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Friday | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |