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How’s your hearing?

October 9, 2008

 

Nice product presentation on the left, don’t you think?

Now what exactly are they? The latest in clear maxillary molar implants?

Wrong. You stick them in your ears. You. The dental professional.  Yes, you, the person who is losing their hearing and doesn’t mind spending about a grand to protect what’s left of your stereocilia.

Not losing your hearing? Then prove it to yourself. Take the test below in a quiet place. Naturally you need to have speakers turned up to about medium to hear all the frequencies. The higher ranges are what are known as the “mosquito” ringtones, which are outside the audible range of people over 30, and often used by the young-uns to send stealth text messages to each other.

There have been a few inconclusive studies published in the dental journals this decade about the concern that high decibel-level noise is an occupational hazard in dental practices. We thought that now would be a good time to gather a little of our own anecdotal evidence, and see how dentists’ hearing stacks up to the general population.

Play each of these tones to yourself and then please fill out the anonymous survey below so that we can publish the results in a future post.  

Play     Frequency          Age Range
 8 kHz Everyone
10 kHz 60 & Younger
12 kHz 50 & Younger
14 kHz 45 & Younger
15 kHz 39 & Younger
16 kHz 30 & Younger
17 kHz 24 & Younger
18 kHz 22 & Younger
19 kHz 20 & Younger
20 kHz 18 & Younger
21 kHz 17 & Younger
22 kHz 16 & Younger

Be sure to use your browser’s “back” button to come back to this page each time until you’ve figured out which frequency is your upper limit.

 

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  4. How many years have you been in practice?


  5. How many hours per week do you practice?

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The University of New South Wales in Australia has posted this test if you’d like a more comprehensive hearing exam. And if it looks like your future may be one of geriatric deafness, you might want to give thought to the benefits of a pair of DentalEars.

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Operative Dentistry, Products, Research, Technology
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Dental Ear, dental hearing loss, Hearing aids, hearing test, mosquito ringtones, survey
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UPDATE: We just realized that the price of DentalEars has

admin | April 18, 2010

UPDATE: We just realized that the price of DentalEars has been reduced to $695, which definitely brings this into the value arena. They probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to wear to arena concerts, too.

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