Abstract
Loud noise exposure in the society consisted to be bigger and bigger problem nowadays, this refers mostly to the young people that are exposed to noise at their work place, as well as in night clubs which they visit in their spare time. In our investigation we explored precisely such people.
Material and Methods. We made audiometric tests and TOAE testing to 30 humans with different noise exposure.
Results. The audiometric tests, as well as TOAE showed: at some of the tested persons temporary or constant hearing impairment, which is in a direct correlation to the loud noise duration exposure.
Conclusions. Loud noise in the night clubs leads firstly to temporally and after some more time to permanent hearing injury and TOAE are new and easy method for it's location at the very beginning.
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