PREVENTION OF DEAFNESS

Children\'s Deafness

This is an article about children's deafness, it's ethiology, diagnosis, treatment, and educa­tional treatment. Here I have given a brief account about the deafness itself and it's in­dividual and social complications, also it's im­pression on the psychological well baing of the child. Then I have discussed, rather in detail, the ethiology of .children's deafness and I have given some statistic...

Historical use of x-rays: treatment of inner ear infections and prevention of deafness.

PURPOSE This article provides an historical assessment of the role of radiotherapy in the treatment of inner ear infections. MATERIALS AND METHODS The research utilized a literature-based evaluation of the use of x-rays during the first half of the 20th century on the treatment of otitis media (OM), mastoiditis, and cervical adenitis and their impact on the occurrence of deafness. RESULTS X...

Improvement of voice quality and prevention of deafness by a bone-conduction device

In modern society, people are involuntarily being exposed to various noises in their everyday-life environments. The increasing use of mobile phones and other portable devices as a primary means of communication outside of homes makes the current noise condition even worse. During the exchange of information on these devices, the volume is usually set 15 dB higher than the surrounding noise in ...

Deafness in the 20th century. Evolution of clinical otology, prevention and rehabilitation of hearing defects.

Dear Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, In one of his more recent books entitled “Letter to an Adolescent”, the well-known psychiatrist Vittorino Andreoli expresses his wish, cited here, a wish with which I whole-heartedly agree. Thus, I accepted, with great pleasure, the invitation to introduce the topics of the Meeting delivering a speech of a historical nature, first of all because Dr. Franze...

The nasopharyngeal radium applicator in the treatment and prevention of deafness.