4 Common Types of Hearing Tests in Australia
There are four types of hearing tests in Australia including pure tone audiometry, vibration perception threshold testing, OAEs and tympanometry testing. All these test measure how sensitive your ears are towards various frequencies with differing volumes which includes speech level frequencies and environmental elements like street noises etc.. The vibration perception threshold testing which is also known as the American standard threshold testing method. There are two separate points to measure hearing in a pure tone audiometry test. The bone conduction or air conduction of sound. The air conduction hearing loss or conductive hearing loss affect the middle ear and the cochlea. The test measures the sounds that travel via the ear canal. The air conduction test measures the hearing loss from outer ear to middle ear. The test doesn’t always detect the hearing loss which affects the outer ear. The test doesn’t detect the hearing loss which affects the inner hair cells or c...