Otosclerosis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIssues like earwax buildup, ear infections and certain abnormal growths in your ear can often be treated with medications or surgery, and these treatments should restore your hearing to normal. However, other abnormalities like stenosis (narrowing) of the ear canal are harder to treat medically and may become permanent. These cases will be treated with hearing aids or bone-anchored implantable devices.<\/p>\n
What About Mixed Hearing Loss?<\/h2>\n
As the name suggests, mixed hearing loss is when you have a combination of sensorineural and conductive hearing loss. This can happen when the ear sustains trauma or when someone with one type of hearing loss gradually develops another. For example, someone with long-standing conductive hearing loss may also develop sensorineural hearing loss as they age.<\/p>\n
Seek Treatment For Hearing Changes<\/h2>\n
Regardless of what type of hearing loss you have, it’s important to seek treatment. If you notice that you have to turn the TV up louder than normal or that voices seem muffled while at work or out to dinner at La Choza Restaurant or another Santa Fe eatery, call the experts at Southwestern Hearing & Balance and schedule an appointment for a hearing test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not all hearing loss is the same. Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss have different causes and treatments and can even sound different. Let\u2019s take a closer look at each. Sensorineural Hearing Loss is More Common When most people talk about hearing loss, they are talking about sensorineural hearing loss. In fact, age-related sensorineural hearing loss…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearsantafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearsantafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearsantafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearsantafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearsantafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hearsantafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearsantafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearsantafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearsantafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearsantafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}