Hearing is a very precious sense that none should ever take for granted. It is very sad whenever one is diagnosed with a hearing problem. Sometimes the loss is conductive but in many cases it is sensorineural hearing loss.
The question now we all have to ask is, how this hearing loss affects individuals who have it and what can be done to treat this hearing loss?
Thanks to our improvements in technology, now sensorineural loss can be treated more properly. Patients can still lead excellent lives and not have to worry about being at a disadvantage when it comes to their hearing.
Sound waves are vibrations in the air–these vibrations pass through various bones in the ear to help humans hear. In the middle ear, humans have the three smallest bones in the human body (all three combined can fit comfortably onto a dime) known as the ossicle bones. These little bones are very important in transmitting and monitoring the control of sounds we receive in our ears. They can amplify the sounds which we hear by three times the normal level, but they also can weaken the force of the vibration by contracting the muscles. So what are the three bones? What do they do? Let’s take a look out how these bones help with hearing: