Understanding My Hearing Test

Make sense of audiograms and other test results.

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Understanding Your Hearing Test

The audiogram displays the softest tones you can hear at different pitches. The closer to the top of the chart the symbols are the quieter the tone could be and you could still detect it. If the symbol is further down the chart it means the tone had to be loud for you to hear it. X is the left ear. O is the right ear.

Annotated audiogram showing low to high pitch from left to right, quiet to loud sound from top to bottom, and hearing-loss ranges from normal to profound.

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