Audiometry and Hearing AID

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Audiometry

Pure tone audiometry is a test that we do to test our hearing, it is a process of testing your hearing levels, especially thresholds, through the process of finding the softest sound you can hear, it's time-tested way of testing, but a very wonderful way of checking your hearing. It helps us understand the site of the hearing anomalies, especially when the peripheral hearing system are affected. As we come to that, we see that we are getting different kinds of values, different kinds of diagnosis, pure tone audiometry is a very short way of knowing and differentiating conductive, sensory-neural or mixed losses.

We are able to test most types of hearing losses, We start to see that what kind of problems that a person may face, pure tone audiometry is the first window into finding what the problem with hearing is, after a peripheral examination of the hearing system of pure tone audiometry is a very good way to find out any other anomalies within the ear. Pure tone audiometry works as the first step towards the diagnostic process in finding out different hearing problems, also helps us to know if the problem has something more to tell us.

So, a good audiologist is generally able to see the different shapes in the audiometric form, and that helps us. In pure tone audiometry we define the left ear with blue marks, and the right ear with red marks, it also has a process called masking, because we are not able to close one year. And hence, we need to use noise to mask the better year so that it doesn't get involved in testing with the poorer year. Come experience pure tone audiometry. A simple but very effective way to know about your hearing and listening skills.

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Hearing AID

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A hearing aid is a small electronic device that you wear in or behind your ear. It makes some sounds louder so that a person with hearing loss can listen, communicate, and participate more fully in daily activities... A hearing aid has three basic parts: a microphone, amplifier, and speaker.

Symptoms Of Hearing Loss

» Do you have trouble in hearing?
» Do you often ask for words to be repeated?
» Do others often proclaim you speak too loudly?
» Do you find it difficult to follow conversation in a noisy restaurant or crowded room?
» Do you often turn up the TV or radio louder than others like?
» Do you hear ringing in your ears?

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Hearing aid styles

» Behind-The-Ear (BTE)
» Behind-The-Ear (BTE)
» Receiver-In-Canal (RIC)
» In-The-Ear (ITE)
» In-The-Canal (ITC)

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