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Causes Of Deafness & Hearing Loss

Posted by admin in Uncategorized at September 19, 2009
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Studies have shown that there are over 9 million people in the UK alone with deafness or some degree of hearing loss and over 28 million in the United States and a staggering 360 million people throughout the entire world suffer from deafness or are hard of hearing.

Hearing loss or deafness can be categorised into two main types, Conductive hearing loss and sensorineural hearing loss.

Conductive Hearing Loss

This type of hearing loss is caused by the interference of transmission of sound from the outer to the inner ear. Possible cause of this may include:

Middle ear infections, collection of fluid in the ear more commonly known as “glue ear” which occurs mostly in children, blockage of the outer ear by wax, damage to the ear drum caused by injury or infection, otosclerosis which is when the middle ear becomes immobile due to growth of the surrounding bone and rheumatoid arthritis.


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