Hearing assessme ...

The whole point to a hearing test is for the audiologist to determine the extent of your hearing loss and the type of hearing loss you have. The extent of your hearing loss is determined by decibels based ...

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Menieres disease

Menieres disease affects the inner ear and no one knows the exact cause of the disease but it does affect the fluid in the canals of the inner ear. Menieres disease is termed a chromic illness which means ...

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Otosclerosis

Otosclerosis usually occurs in people during their teens or early years and causes ear bone degeneration, the sound conducting bones of the ear will start to change in consistency from hard bone to soft bone tissue. This degeneration ...

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Deafness & hearing loss guide

Presbycusis is the term that is used for hearing loss as we get older, from around the age of 40 our hearing will gradually decline and we may find that we have to turn up the TV louder to hear it comfortably or we think that people are mumbling or we miss what people say and find that we have to ask them to repeat themselves more frequently. People suffering from Presbycusis will also find it harder to hear certain sounds such as water dripping from a tap and some shy away from activities that they used to enjoy socially due to their problem.

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