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What helps manage hyperacusis during dental procedures?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Oct 4, 2022 | Replies (24)Comment receiving replies
...just now wondering if,overall, dentists can get ear 'issues' from listening to the sound of the drill most of their days? dental noises for me I can even her the vibrations inside my head, regardless of earplugs 🙁
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I cannot site it, but I do recall there being some statistics about dentists having a higher incidence of hearing loss than others. This was quite some time ago. It was suggested that the dentists use ear plugs.
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Sometimes that those of us with hyperacusis forget that the noise we are hearing isn’t as loud in reality. It’s just that as a result of out hyperacusis the noise APPEARS to be a lot louder than in fact it is to a normal ear. This begs the question of are we safe in terms of avoiding further damage with the louder sounding noise, or because of the noise level that we hear being louder to only our ears, are we therefore safe from further damage. Does anyone know the answer? I am sure a number of us would benefit from knowing.