{"id":157,"date":"2019-11-06T08:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drlindachiu.fm1.dev\/hearing-loss\/single-sided-deafness\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T21:36:44","slug":"single-sided-deafness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/drlindachiu.com\/ear-hearing\/hearing-loss\/single-sided-deafness\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Sided Deafness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Single sided deafness (SSD) is a type of unilateral\nhearing loss wherein an individual has profound hearing loss in one ear and\nnormal or almost normal hearing from the other ear. Typically, SSD is a\npermanent condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenges faced by someone with SSD are\nquite different than those experienced by someone with bilateral hearing loss.\nIn ideal listening conditions, such as sitting face-to-face at close distance\nin a quiet room, understanding speech is fairly easy, because in such a\nscenario the signal from each ear is mostly redundant. The brain is able to\nfunction fine with the input from a single ear. This is why most people are\nable to have a phone conversation even though they are hearing the phone call\nin only one ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation in a restaurant, shopping mall,\ncity park or car is very different. In these settings, there will usually be\nmultiple sources of sound at any particular moment, and some of them will be\njust as loud as the conversation someone is focusing on. In this case, the\nbrain needs two ears working together to be able to filter out the background\nnoise and understand the primary speech signal. Someone with SSD will find it\ndifficult to carry on a conversation in noisy places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone with SSD will typically have\ndifficulty localizing sound (recognizing the location or origin of a sound\nsource) and hearing speech coming from the same side as the affected ear. Sound\nlocalization depends on subtle differences in the hearing cues from each ear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Complications of SSD include anxiety, stress,\nsocial isolation, dizziness and difficulty maintaining attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>What Causes Single Sided Deafness?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"783\" src=\"https:\/\/drlindachiu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iStock-9523344800-compressed-1280x783.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drlindachiu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iStock-9523344800-compressed-1280x783.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/drlindachiu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iStock-9523344800-compressed-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/drlindachiu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iStock-9523344800-compressed-1536x939.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/drlindachiu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iStock-9523344800-compressed.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>SSD can be caused by a variety of factors and\ncan develop slowly or very rapidly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudden deafness is a rapid onset of hearing loss that occurs with little or no warning, often following a viral infection. This type of hearing loss will often affect only one ear and cause SSD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional causes of SSD include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Trauma to the head<\/li><li>Genetic disorders<\/li><li>Meniere\u2019s disease<\/li><li>Eighth nerve tumors<\/li><li>Microtia<\/li><li>Mastoiditis<\/li><li>Measles<\/li><li>Mumps<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>Treatments for SSD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The unique challenges created by SSD require\nunique treatment options as the objectives are different than those for\nbilateral hearing loss. There are two widely accepted technological solutions\nfor SSD:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Contralateral Routing of Signal (CROS)\nhearing system: A CROS system looks essentially identical to\na pair of hearing aids. It utilizes a microphone that is placed in the vicinity\nof the impaired ear and an amplifier near the normal ear. The microphone picks\nup sounds and transmits them to the patient\u2019s good ear. The BiCROS variant is\nsuitable for individuals with some degree of hearing loss in one ear and total\ndeafness in the other.<\/li><li>Bone\nAnchored Hearing Aid (BAHA): a surgically implanted device that uses direct\nbone conduction to transmit sounds through the skull from the affected side to\nthe normal side. Vibrations in the bones of the ear canal and middle ear\nstimulate the hair cells of the cochlea, boosting the ability to hear.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When treating SSD with one of these two\noptions, there is almost always a significant improvement in speech\nunderstanding for speech coming from the affected side, but localization\nremains difficult. Great improvement in the ability to understand speech in\nnoisy backgrounds can be realized by the use of an accessory microphone that\nbeams a wireless signal directly to the CROS system or BAHA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, the FDA approved the use of a\ncochlear implant to treat SSD. Several research studies have demonstrated that\nit can approve speech understanding in noise and localization, but it will\nlikely be considered experimental by most insurance carriers for some years to\ncome. Because it requires invasive surgery and uses electrical stimulation of\nthe auditory nerve, cochlear implants are only appropriate in very specific\ncases for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you think you have SSD and are interested in our personalized recommendation on treatment, call our office at&nbsp;<a href=\"tel:+18082626673\">(808) 262-6673<\/a>&nbsp;to schedule an appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single sided deafness (SSD) is a type of unilateral hearing loss wherein an individual has profound hearing loss in one ear and normal or almost normal hearing from the other ear. Typically, SSD is a permanent condition. 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