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Causes of Sensorineural & Conductive Deafness & Effects of Hearing Loss on Both Adults

The leading experts at ENT Specialists are dedicated and passionate about our work. Our patients are our priority and when concerns arise, we want to provide you with quality services. Our audiology hearing loss services can help identify answers to what is inflicting your hearing. We are excited to serve the people in Intermountain West and Salt Lake City with superior medical care. ENT Specialists physicians are top in their field and are eager to help you with your hearing loss concerns.!

Effects of Hearing Loss on Relationships

To many people hearing loss is a difficult transition. Relationships with coworkers, family, friends or simple day to day interaction with people can be a hardship and lend to feeling down. Ask yourself; is experiencing hearing loss causing you to suffer? Is your hearing loss making it difficult to go through day to day activities and people interaction? If so, you may be able to find a solution with ENT Specialists.

What Causes Hearing Loss?

Hearing loss could be inflicting you due to several circumstances, age, heredity, ear infections, medicines, injury, or long term exposure to loud noises. There are many instances where losing your hearing can be unavoidable, but there treatments you might be suitable for. In any case, when seeking care and treatment always be cautious in how you do it.

Sensorineural and Conductive Deafness

There are a few classifications of hearing loss; sensorineural, conductive, or a mixture of sensorineural and conductive. Sensorineural hearing is due to damage to your inner ear of the tiny sensor cells located there. The damage that cause sensorineural can be from illness, disease, injury, genetic disorders and age. Conductive hearing loss stems from sound waves not being able to travel from your outer ear to your inner ear. Earwax, fluid buildup, or punctured eardrums is the cause of conductive hearing loss. Conductive hearing loss is treatable through medical or surgical treatment performed by our leading specialists at ENT Specialists.

External, Middle & Inner Ear Structures

Your ear can be broken down into three major parts. The first part is the external ear, which includes pinna or the visible outer ear, and the ear canal. The second part is the middle ear, which includes the tympanic membrane or ear drum, and the ossicles or the middle ear bones. Finally the third part is the inner ear consisting of the cochlea, being the organ for hearing and the vestibule, being the organ for balance.

How Does Hearing Work in Your Ear

Hearing is basically when sounds waves enter through the ear canal, producing a vibration of the ear drum, which then passes through three tiny bones in the middle of your ear just behind the ear drum. After the sound vibrates through the ossicles, the nerves transmit to the nerves and fluids within the inner ear, and a nerve impulse that leads along the auditory nerve up to the brain.

Audiologists Performing Hearing Tests, Providing Custom Hearing Aids, Cochlear Implants in Salt Lake City, Draper, Tooele & Murray Utah

When it comes to your hearing, great precision, tenderness and care needs to be applied. You need our professional expertise at ENT Specialists to provide the best treatment for your hearing loss. If you want to explore and get answers for your hearing loss, call our offices today! Getting the solid and correct information about your hearing loss can help you make the most optimal solution for your needs. We can answer the questions you have, and schedule your appointment. Our office is currently giving out $25 gift card for referrals that get a hearing test completed.

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