Seventy-five percent of Americans who are 65-years-old and up suffer from a hearing loss problem. There are different categories in a hearing impairment.
Hearing loss is determined according to the degree, type, and configuration of the hearing loss. Here are the different types of hearing loss:
Conductive Hearing Loss
It is a type of hearing loss where the sound has a problem in passing through the ear canal. This is a type of hearing loss where faint sounds are hard to hear.
Progressive Hearing Loss
A person may not be aware at first that he has a problem with his hearing until over time. This type of hearing loss usually changes from becoming worse to getting better and vice versa. If it worsens, the doctor would recommend a cochlear hearing aid implant.
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
This is a type of hearing loss cannot be corrected using surgery because both the inner ear and its nerve pathways are damage. However, the patient can use any type of hearing aid to restore his hearing loss.
Not all people who have hearing problems could hear with the use of hearing aids, however, they could somehow help in improving their daily activities in life.


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