Pure Tone Audiometry

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Puretone Audiometry Your hearing may have been
checked at school or at the doctor's office. When
you heard the "beep," you might recall putting on
earbuds and raising your hand. Pure- tone testing
is what this is. Because the sounds go via the
outer and middle ear, it's also known as air
conduction testing. This test will assist you in
determining the quietest sound you can hear at
various pitches or frequencies. When you listen
to music with earbuds, the sound only reaches one
ear at a time. Earphones are not always possible
to use. When a youngster refuses to wear them,
for example. Sounds are played by speakers within
a sound booth in certain circumstances.
Sound-field screening is what it's called. Both
ears get the noises at the same time. This method
of testing will not reveal if a hearing loss is
present in only one ear.
A pure tone hearing test, as the name implies,
employs pure tones to assess if a person can
perceive all of the frequencies in the auditory
spectrum. This sort of hearing test is classified
as subjective and is performed with the use of an
audiometer. The audiometer records the results in
an audiogram, which shows whether your hearing is
impacted by sound transmission in the middle ear
or damage in the inner ear, allowing the
specialist to choose the best course of action.