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This type of hearing loss can occur from head trauma or abrupt changes in air pressure such as in airplane descent, which can cause inner ear fluid compartment rupture or leakage, which can be toxic to the inner ear. This hearing loss can also occur from acoustic trauma, or exposure to excessively loud noise, which can be toxic to the inner ear.
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Types, Causes and Treatment | Hearing Loss Association of America. (n.d.). Retrieved December 1, 2015, from http://www.hearingloss.org/content/typescausesandtreatment
A major cause of hearing loss in our society is noise exposure. Tiny hair cells in the ear are damaged when assaulted by loud noise. Once those hair cells are destroyed they cannot be replaced.
According to the Minnesota Department of Human Services, adventitious hearing loss is described as “hearing loss in individuals who were born with normal hearing, but at some point lost some or all of their hearing through illness or accident.”
In the cases of irreversible hearing loss, this may be managed with hearing aids or surgically with cochlear implants. Each individual’s circumstances are different and no hearing loss is the same.