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Are bone conduction headphones safer with regards to hearing loss?
My understanding (not a doctor) of the consensus on this issue is as follows:
Neither conventional earbuds nor bone conductors cause eardrum perforation (not loud enough)[0].
Both conventional ...
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Can hearing aids "repair" hearing issues thanks to brain plasticity?
Yes at least according to these two studies:
Lavie, Banai, Karni, and Attias (2015)
We tested whether using hearing aids can improve unaided performance in speech perception tasks in older adults ...
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