Michael Toney is now using a modern bone-conduction hearing device after audiologists found a creative solution.
NORTON SHORES, Mich. — After more than five decades relying on outdated, painful technology just to hear the world around him, a Michigan man is finally experiencing sound in a way he never has before.
Michael Toney, 54, spent most of his life using a bulky, body-worn hearing device connected by a cord to a headband — a system so old, even modern audiologists had only seen it in textbooks.
But now, thanks to a new bone-conduction device and
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