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Types of Hearing loss |
No two people have the exact same hearing impairment. Work-place
noise, inherited medical conditions, childhood and adult illness all
combine to produce different types of hearing loss in different people.
There are three types of hearing loss:
- Conductive hearing loss.
associated with problems with the bones, eardrum or membranes that
carry sound from the external ear through the middle ear to the inner
ear.
- Sensoineural hearing loss.
(also known as nerve deafness).
It is the condition when deterioration of the inner ear is present.
This may be caused by the natural aging process, or degeneration of
the nerves leading from the the inner ear to the brain.
- Mixed hearing loss.
A hearing loss which contains elements of both conductive and
sensoineural hearing loss.
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