Pure tone audiometry

Pure tone audiometry or pure-tone audiometry is the main hearing test used to identify hearing threshold levels of an individual, enabling determination of the degree, type and configuration of a hearing loss and thus providing a basis for diagnosis and management. Pure-tone audiometry is a subjective, behavioral measurement of a hearing threshold, as it relies on patient responses to pure tone sounds. Therefore, pure-tone audiometry is only used on adults and children old enough to cooperate with the test procedure. At Doctors Of Hearing, pure tone audiometry is performed used latest computerized audiometers in a soundproof room.