Sensori-neural deafness is medically irreversible. It is caused by a malfunction of the inner ear.

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Sensori-neural deafness is medically irreversible.  It is caused by a malfunction of the inner ear.  So when sounds reach the inner ear, they go no further.  In normal cases the sound will be transmitted to the brain.  The cause of hearing impairment has various forms.  Such as, a fault in the genetic blueprint, if one chromosome from either parent is damaged.  This is the main cause of a child having it before birth.  Deafness can be caused at any stage of life.  Birth injury where the brain or the nerve leading to the brain may get damaged causing an impairment.  Also if the health of the mother is affected during the pregnancy.  It may lead on to problems such as hearing impairment to the child.  Also premature births, a risk of Jaundice, when the liver has not yet developed or is damaged.  This can cause impairments also.  Children can injury their cochlea causing damage.  Injury like this due to loud noise for a long time.  Also if there is fluid on the cochlea.  This will result in sensori-neural deafness.

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Treatment of sensori-neural deafness is medically irreversible.  So aids have to be used.  There are three types of aids to help people hear well.  The most common aid is the post-aural hearing aid.  It comes in all different sizes so a small baby to an elderly person could wear it.  It fits behind the ear and is nearly unseen.  The smaller aid-in the ear hearing aid is very small.  This cannot be seen unless indicated.  This is normally used in teenagers and adults.  It would be easily lost.  So I would not think the health boards would think it ...

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