Top 7 Things You need to Know about Hearing Loss

Hearing loss is considered to be the third most common physical condition after arthritis and heart disease. It is also a major public health issue, since nearly 60{754741679431ceb09efae6e94320565469f785b1bbff1b66db1121ae80245ef8} of hearing loss patients are either in the workforce or in educational settings. Hearing loss may be sudden, gradual or congenital. Sudden hearing loss is often noise-induced … Read more

Ear correction surgery

Ear correction surgery is?cosmetic surgery?to modify the shape or size of the ears or pin them back if they stick out. Pinning back the ears is known as an otoplasty or pinnaplasty. It’s usually carried out on children and young teenagers, though adults may wish to have it done, too. An otoplasty is not suitable … Read more

Mixed hearing loss

What is it? Mixed hearing loss has elements of both conductive hearing loss and sensorineural hearing loss.?This means there is damage to both the outer and inner ear.?The outer ear cannot conduct sound properly to the inner ear, and the inner ear can?t process the sound to be sent to the brain.?The sensorineural component (inner … Read more

Sensorineural hearing loss and It?s Causes

Sensorineural Hearing Loss A sensorineural hearing loss happens when there is damage in your inner ear. Audiologists can help if you have this type of hearing loss. What are the signs? When present in both ears, sensorineural hearing loss will mean you may have difficulty understanding, even when speech seems loud enough. When in one … Read more