Brain stem lesions can impair the ability to fuse incomplete messages into a meaningful message and to pinpoint where sounds are coming from. Treatment Treatment of hearing loss depends on the cause. For example, if fluid in the middle ear or wax in the ear canal is causing a conductive hearing loss, the fluid is drained or the wax removed. Often, no cure is available. In these cases, treatment involves compensating for the hearing loss as much as possible.
Most people use a hearing aid.
Rarely, a cochlear implant is used. Hearing Aids Sound amplification with a hearing aid helps people who have conductive or sensorineural hearing loss, particularly if they have trouble hearing the frequencies of normal speech. Hearing aids also can help people who have predominantly high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss and those who have hearing loss in only one ear. Hearing aids have a microphone to pick up sounds, an amplifier to increase their volume, and a speaker to transmit the amplified sounds. Air conduction hearing aids, which are generally superior to bone conduction hearing aids, are most commonly used.