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

Tinnitus is a medical condition which affects people by noise in the ears; the noise can range from a ringing, whooshing, buzzing or hissing. The sounds are usually heard either in the head, one ear or both ears and can be very loud and distressing, while this doesn’t actually make the person deaf it can cause them not to be able to hear correctly due to the loudness of the noise.

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