SUMMARY Hearing Disorders have been common diseases. They develop complications such as hearing loss and psycho-social contact problems and would affect children learning process if not properly treated. Malocclusions are included as cause factors of such disorders. The existence and/or extent of interrelations between malooclusions and hearing disorders is a subject of controversy. A case-co...

An audiological and linguistic screening was conducted on 40 threeand four-year old children at an early childhood center. The effect of middle-ear infections, flat tympanograms, and thresholds above 25 dB on the production of phonological patterns was examined. Children failing the audiological screening show a lower number of adult words (75%) and a higher number of substitutions (22%) and de...

The difficulty of accurately localizing the source of subjective tinnitus is well-known. Anamnesis and traditional audiological tests can often suggest a source if its origin as peripheral or merely central (or both). Therefore, several authors, such as Risey, Denk, and Shulman, recently proposed identifying the source of subjective tinnitus through the evaluation of the responses reported by p...

Cigarette smoking is a well known health problem affecting various body organs. There is a dearth of literature on early changes in auditory functioning at high frequency due to smoking. Hence, the present study aimed to investigate the audiological parameters for 100 chronic smokers. Their results were compared to 50 non smokers. Audiological test battery included conventional pure tone audiom...

AUDIOLOGICAL medicine is a relatively new specialty in the British Isles and the editor of this two volume work is one of the outstanding British specialists in this field. He has gathered together most of the leading audiological physicians in this country and quite a few of distinction from overseas. In the preface he states that his plan is to cover all clinical aspects of this specialty, wi...

Objective: To assess the operative time, post operative pain, graft uptake and audiological gain in the group of the patients undergoing the endoscope assisted and the microscope assisted myringoplasty. Setting: Tertiary referral hospital. Subjects: The study was prospective in nature and comprised of 100 patients suffering from the chronic otitis media inactive mucosal disease. Patients attend...

Exposure to chemicals in the workplace can lead to occupational chemical-induced hearing loss, as many chemicals have been internationally recognised as hazardous to hearing. A number of studies have demonstrated that, similar to noise, some chemicals not only affect the sensory organ of the auditory system (the cochlea) but also lead to adverse effects in central auditory structures. Morata an...