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Pure tone audiometry in presbyacusis

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Presbycusis is the loss of high frequency sensivity with age. A pure tone audiogram will resemble fig.1.

When prescribing hearing aids the audiogram will guide the degree of amplification required at various frequencies.

Fig.1


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