My audiologist (in a hospital) has often told me she thinks it's just human nature that audies who also dispense HA's will encourage more people to use them. She says she isn't telling me to try it, and doesn't think it will really help, but wouldn't be hurt if I did. I'm halfway tempted to try it just to see, with the latest & greatest - but we tried my old HA's after surgery in 1990 and it didn't help, so I guess we've kind of let the subject drop since then.
Clearly, today's HA's are much better than those were, from what I'm reading!
My loss in that ear ranges between 95 and 110 depending on the frequency, so I don't really think it's likely to help much, but you never know...