WHAT IS HEARING LOSS ?

In  general dictionaries: hearing loss that is so-called deafness, means complete loss of hearing, a state in which a patient can not hear anything or can not hear clearly or their audibility comes worse.

In otorhinolaryngological terminology: hearing loss is partly or totally reduction of audibility. Hearing loss can happen in right ear or left ear or both ears.

Attention: Hearing loss – Sudden deafness happening is an emergency in otorhinolaryngology. In these cases the patients must be sent to a professional hospital timely to check in order to treat patients’ ability hearing
 

There are three types of hearing loss:

Sensorineural hearing loss (also known as nerve deafness): It is the condition when deterioration of the inner ear is present and may be caused by the natural aging process, or degeneration of the nerves leading from the inner ear to the brain.

Conductive hearing loss: Associated with problems with the bones, eardrum or membranes that carry sound from the external ear through the middle ear to then inner ear.

Mixed hearing loss: A hearing loss with contains element of both conductive and Sensor neural hearing loss.

In many cases, hearing loss comes gradual painless and develops so slowly it is barely noticeable caused by the natural aging process, your hearing can be impaired by:
  • Middle ear infection
  • Congenital
  • Traumatic injury
  • Autotoxin medications
  • Heredity
  • Tumors
  • Earwax accumulation
  • Exposure to loud or constant noise (occupational disease)
 

Audiogram of one hearing loss patient
Dominant of hearing loss

Symptom (Detail)
Levels of Hearing Loss (Detail)
Causes & Treatments (Detail)