Hearing problems such as hearing loss and susurrus aurium are said to improve with occlusal treatment, but few objective clinical reports have been published in the dental field. We looked at the effect of occlusal treatment and chewing instruction on hearing ability in five patients who had an occlusal disorder and the unilateral chewing habit. The following results were obtained: 1. Unilatera...

INTRODUCTION Currently, there are no doubts about the benefits of cochlear implants for the development of children with severe or profound hearing loss. However, there is still no consensus among researchers and professionals regarding the benefits for the improvement of hearing skills in children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder using cochlear implants. OBJECTIVE Review the availa...

Chronic tinnitus can often be temporally associated with a loss of sensorineural hearing. However, also occur in people normal hearing and thus arise without traceable disorder the inner ear. In present study, we tested whether fine-structure audiometry or high-resolution measurement otoacoustic emissions reveal evidence inner-ear-related disorders that remain undetected by conventional manual ...

Age-related hearing loss (presbycusis) is characterized by an increased hearing threshold and poor speech understanding in a noisy environment, slowed central processing of acoustic information, and impaired localization of sound sources. Presbycusis seriously affects the older people's quality of life. Particularly, hearing loss in the elderly contributes to social isolation, depression, and l...

This overview study provides information on important phoniatric and audiological aspects of early childhood hearing and language development with the aim of presenting diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. The article first addresses the universal newborn hearing screening that has been implemented in Germany for all infants since January 2009. The process of newborn hearing screening from th...

Sensorineural non-syndromic hearing loss is the most common disorder which affects 1 in 500 newborns. Hearing loss is an extremely heterogeneous defect with more than 100 loci identified to date. According to the studies, mutations in GJB2 are estimated to be involved in 50- 80% of autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss cases, but contribution of other loci in this disorder is yet ambig...

Auditory neuropathy (AN) is a hearing disorder that affects newborns. Those with high-risk neonatal histories, family history of childhood hearing loss, and hyperbilirubinemia are at greatest risk. Current neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hearing screening methods that rely only on otoacoustic emissions will fail to detect this disorder. Auditory neuropathy differs from conductive hearing lo...

INTRODUCTION Musical obsessions consist of intrusive recollections of music fragments that are experienced as unwanted. Otosclerosis is caused by an abnormal bone homeostasis of the otic capsule and represents a frequent cause of hearing impairment. Many conditions causing hearing loss have been associated with musical hallucinations, but the association between musical obsessions and hearing l...