Monthly Archives: May 2022

Untreated Hearing Loss and Dementia

Hearing aid use is associated with positive cognitive health results Several studies have concluded that “untreated hearing loss can increase the risk of dementia by 50%.”  This link between untreated hearing loss and cognitive decline has been a growing topic of discussion in the medical world for a while now — our own Dr. Archelle Georgiou…

Ear Infections and Hearing Loss

Can ear infections cause hearing loss? Hearing loss can be caused by several different factors including aging, injury, noise exposure, even heredity. Those factors affect the auditory nerve, causing sensorineural hearing loss, which is the most common type of hearing loss.  But there is a second, less common type of hearing loss, known as conductive…