HearingDB
108 in-depth guides on hearing, hearing loss, and ear health. From conditions like tinnitus and Meniere disease to cochlear implants and hearing protection, understand how hearing works and how to protect it.
Key Topics
Presbycusis
Presbycusis is the most common form of hearing loss and the gradual, usually symmetrical decline in hearing that accompanies agein...
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
Noise induced hearing loss is permanent sensorineural hearing loss caused by exposure to loud sound, either a single intense impul...
Tinnitus
Tinnitus is the perception of sound, such as ringing, buzzing, hissing, or humming, without an external source. It is common, affe...
Cochlear Implants
A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted device that provides a sense of sound to people with severe to profound sensorineural...
Hearing Aids
Hearing aids are electronic devices that amplify and process sound for people with hearing loss and are the most widely used treat...
BPPV
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, BPPV, is the most common cause of vertigo. It produces brief episodes of intense spinning, u...
Meniere Disease
Meniere disease is an inner ear disorder associated with endolymphatic hydrops, an excess of fluid in the endolymphatic spaces of ...
Hearing Protection Earplugs
Earplugs are hearing protection devices inserted into the ear canal to reduce the level of sound reaching the eardrum. The main ty...
Otoacoustic Emissions
Healthy outer hair cells amplify incoming sound and emit faint echoes back, OAEs, recordable with a soft probe microphone. Present...