What Can Be Done About My Hearing Loss?

The first determination is the kind of hearing loss that you have, whether the hearing loss is problem with sound conduction into the inner ear or with sound conduction from the inner ear to the brain. Once this is deciphered, it must be determined why you have that hearing loss.

For those with a problem with the conduction of sound from the ambient air to the inner ear itself, the option of a hearing aid, to amplify sound to the inner ear is available. Surgery may also be an option and is determined in the office.

For those with a profound hearing loss or a profound deficit in speech determination, a cochlear implant is available.

People with deafness on oneside or chronically draining ears and a hearing loss related to conduction of sound to the inner ear, a bone anchored hearing aid or BAHA is an option available.