Reporting by Kasey Craig
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Hearing loss can cause social isolation and frustration, which impacts many areas of our lives: work, relationships, entertainment, and even something as simple as listening to the birds outside your window. As a trained audiologist, it is my job to help people re-engage in these facets of life.
The majority of individuals with hearing loss have sensorineural hearing loss, which is caused by genetics, aging, and noise exposure. There is no medicine, surgery, or treatment that can recover hearing caused by this kind of hearing loss, making hearing aids the best solution.
Although hearing aids do not restore your natural hearing, they do provide many short-term and long-term benefits. Untreated hearing loss is associated with higher rates of.....
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