Hearing Education

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Leading Causes of Hearing Loss:

Adults

• Excessive noise exposure
• Presbycusis-aging process
• Heredity
• Vascular and circulatory disorders
• Tumors and other space occupying lesions

Children

• Middle Ear Problems

~ Before age six, 90% of all children will suffer from Otitis Media
• Congenital

~ Craniofacial anomalies
• Family history of hearing loss
• Congenital infections

Others

• Bacterial Meningitis
• Head trauma
• Ototoxic medications
• Childhood infectious diseases (mumps, measles)