Teeth and eyes checked! What about your ears?

DID you know that more than half of Britons have never had a hearing test? Yet millions of us make regular trips to the dentist for the sake of our teeth, or visit an optician to get our sight tested.

Getting into the habit of booking an annual hearing test could make sense, too.

While failing eyesight or a decaying tooth often have obvious symptoms, damage to your hearing often happens gradually and the signs may not be apparent at first.

However, one in six people in the UK do have hearing loss – that’s 11 million people.

And it’s not just the elderly that are affected.

More than 40 per cent of people over 50 years old have some degree of hearing loss – which makes getting a regular hearing test after this age a good idea, before it begins to damage your quality of life.

Booking a free test with Amplifon, a global hearing specialist, makes the process easy and reassuring.

They have 200 branches across the country and their trained audiologists can help identify any problems or just put your mind at rest.

They can also recommend hearing aids to suit your particular type of hearing loss.

You can even take up the offer of a free trial to make sure that the technology works for you.

Remember, finding the right solution to your hearing problems could transform your life and the lives of those around you. At its 200 centres across the UK, Amplifon offers free hearing tests as well as free trials of appropriate hearing aids.