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Types of Hearing Loss
February 25, 2021
There are three different types of hearing loss; sensorinueral, conductive or mixed.
Sensorineural: When hair cells inside the cochlea die. The cochlea is attached to the nerve of hearing which communicates to your brain.
Conductive: When something mechanical doesn’t work in the inner ear. Could be a perferrated tympanic membrane (punctured ear drum) or ossification of the ossicular chaine (three smallest bones in your body; Incus, Malleus and Stapes).
Mixed: A combonation of the two types of hearing loss.
Some patients are in denial, they don’t believe they have a hearing loss because it doesn’t affect their lifestyle and they don’t know what they’re missing. Many patients thank me at the two week follow up, they now realize what they haven’t heard in such a long time. That being said, the first two weeks are difficult, you will hear everything. W hether you want to or not! Some sounds you will notice are; You will hear your own voice Background noise Going to the bathroom will sound like Niagara Falls Paper will sound to sharp or to crispy The tap will sound loud The clock Creaking and cracking of the floors
