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The first step is for your GP to physically examine your hearing. Utilizing an instrument with a at the end, called an or otoscope, they'll look for anything that is not normal, including; discharge, a ear drum, perforated ear drum or an object that may be blocking the ear.

You may also be asked about any pain or distress which you may be experiencing.

Checks include whispering or ticking watch, tuning hand, audiometry or bone oscillator:

Whispering or employing a ticking watch. One ear at any given time will be blocked and the nurse or doctor will test your hearing with sounds of different volumes. In the whispering test, you might have to repeat what aloud, when you hear them whispered.

Tuning fork. A tuning fork is a Y-shaped metallic object which, when utilized, creates sound waves at a fixed pitch. It's generally useful for tuning instruments. A tuning fork is used by doctors by tapping it on the shoulder or knee, to make it vibrate, then keeping it at each side of your mind. It'll be placed first in the air near your ear, to observe well you hear sounds that are transmitted through air vibrations. Then it might be kept to the bone behind your ear (mastoid bone) to see when the waves are transmitted to your inner ear through the bone how you can hear.

Audiometry. In this test you are given headphones to wear, which are attached with a device. Sounds of different volumes (volume) are performed through the earphones, and you've to indicate whether you heard them. It's likely you have to boost a hand or press a button. Kiddies may need to move a coloured stop.

Bone oscillator. A slightly different test may be used to test how well you hear sounds which are delivered through the bone rather than the air. This uses a guitar called a bone oscillator placed from the bone behind your head. team