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Posted by M on 2009-05-12 20:45:36 CDTBangkok Hospital Pattaya has opened what they believe to be the best hearing center in the Eastern Region to treat patients with hearing loss. 
Bangkok Hospital Pattaya has opened what they believe to be the best hearing center in the Eastern Region to treat patients with hearing loss.
Prof Dr Suchitra Prasansuk, director of the Hearing Center.
Around 250 million people in the world have hearing defects. In Thailand, 13.6% of the population suffers from hearing loss, 9% of this hearing-impaired population are children.
The cause of hearing problems can also be passed down. Parents who have had hearing disabilities since they were born have a 50% chance of having hearing-impaired children.
On April 27 at the new Hearing Center on the third floor in Building B at Bangkok Hospital Pattaya, Tawit Chaisawangwong, chairman of the Pattaya City Council, chaired the official opening, attended by Dr. Pichit Kangwolkij, director of BHP, Honorable Dr Suchitra Prasansuk, director of the Hearing Center, and doctors.
Dr Suchitra said that hearing problems are rising in Thailand, especially in children. Three out of 1,000 people lose their hearing at birth.
This affects their general development, especially their speech. Lack of diagnosis and early treatment add to the problem.
Many people need to be treated due to bad habits of long telephone usage, listening to loud music and loud sounds at entertainment places which can impair hearing. Aggressive behavior also carries the risk of increasing hearing loss.
The Hearing Center has a team of physicians, medical specialists and cutting-edge technology that will help patients received treatment for various disorders such as sinus disease, allergies and chronic wounds to the neck.
The wide range services center provides are:Measurement of hearing of sound at different frequencies (audiometry), ability to understand speech (speech discrimination score), separation of waste ends of nerves for hearing of the measurement labyrinth SISI Score (recruitment test), the separation of the nerves for hearing loss audio and the alertness of the brain (tone decay test).
Officials cut the ribbon to officially open the Hearing Center.
Also, detecting a special hearing position to extract trace disease (Bekesy Audiomerty), measuring hearing in the brain shaft (audiotory brainstem response), measuring balance to determine loss of balance (posturography), measuring balance of the brain and inner ear to see the response of the eyes, caloric test, electronicstramography and video nystagmography.
Also offered are rehabilitation therapy for balance training, installation of hearing aids and embedded artificial auditory nerve surgery in many cases of deafness.For more information call 0-382-599-99, HotLine 1719 or go to http://www.bangkok pattayahospital.com
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