The BTE aids can sometimes be more discreet visually than the CIC type of aids because the unit that sits behind the ear now is often very small (if you have hair that hangs behind your ear, it's hidden, and the connection into the canal is often a slim tube of perhaps 1-2mm in diameter or a wire that is just as small if the receiver is in the canal.

Again, the advantages of this type of technology is that the miniaturization does not rule over performance, like it does in CIC type of aids.


-Scott