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- Clinical Audiology & Hearing Therapy, University Isabel I, Spain
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Bahgat El Sherif, Clinical Audiology & Hearing Therapy, University Isabel I, Spain
Received: September 12, 2020; Published: September 25, 2020
DOI: 10.32474/SJO.2020.05.000209
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Abstract
Single sided deafness (SSD) is established when the patient has normal hearing in one ear and severe to profound hearing loss
in the other one, and measured by pure tone audiometry as hearing threshold (over 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 KHz) of at least 70 dB hearing
level in the affected ear and not more than 30 dB HL in the better ear. The causes of single sided deafness include many pathologies
such as: temporal bone trauma, Meniere`s disease, vestibular schwannoma, cochleovestibular abnormalities, vascular ischemia,
autoimmune disease, and infection. Idiopathic cause is commonly encountered. The advantages of binaural hearing include head
shadow effect, binaural summation, and binaural squelch. The diminished ability to orient and understanding meaning of patient
with SSD have negative impact on quality of life which may be equal the effect of bilateral loss, also, it may threaten safety. The
conventional treatment of single sided deafness was contralateral routing of sound and Osseo integrated implants. Both forms
of the treatment are effective in addressing head shadow effect but have no advantage to provide psychoacoustic information to
deaf side i.e. squelch and summation effects, which are mandatory to improve speech perception in noise. The cochlear implant is
the only treatment modality that offers bilateral listening that improve recognition in noise and sound localization. Results from
studies and satisfaction questionnaire confirmed the superiority of CI and significant performance improvement regarding sound
localization, speech perception and marked tinnitus improvement.
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