Full shell hearing aids are larger and easier to adjust, with larger batteries that are easier to insert. This makes it even harder to diagnose and, by that time that it is, some degree of the resulting sonus complete may be permanent. Sufferers of both tinnitus and sonus complete, no matter how slight, should avoid being around loud noises such as airplane engines, heavy machinery, extremely loud music (rock concerts), or blaring IPods.

There are four basic types of hearing aids: those that go behind the ear, inside of the ear, inside of the canal and completely inside of the canal. With mixed sonus complete, the easiest to treat is still conductive hearing impairment. People who wear glasses or contacts aren't ashamed of having less than perfect vision, they're simply using assistive technology to see normally. Usage of headphones or earphones for music tends to make the ears undergo a temporary threshold shift.