Comprehensive ENT care

Understanding hearing decline and the advanced solutions that support healthy, active ageing

- Dr. Sanjiv Badhwar

As medical professionals, there have been concerns with respect to hearing and hearing loss conditions, where it is considered as a stigma. However, it is something natural that happens as we age.

At times, it is extremely difficult to get someone to accept that he/ she has hearing loss. And also accept that there are solutions available in today's time. Some of these can be non-invasive, others invasive-minimally so. And these solutions have been giving good results.

Hearing loss is extremely important, since as you age and your hearing becomes impaired, so does your social communication.

This can lead to limited or complete loss of interaction with friends, limited contact and communication with family and kids away abroad- on the telephone.

Modern medicine has shown that if you ignore hearing loss, dementia and early ageing sets in.

Hearing loss in ability to hear as well as someone with typical hearing. This may be:

• Mild

• Moderate

• Severe

• Profound

"Hard of hearing" refers to hearing loss which normally ranges from mild to severe.