The Academic Member, Dr. Nurten Küçük, of the Istanbul Gelişim University, who underlined the importance of the scanning BERA hearing tests, conducted by the Ministry of Health and carried out on every new-born infant, indicated that the BERA test making it possible to determine the congenital hearing losses at an earlier period also gave opportunity for the measurement of the degree of the hearing loss.
A hearing loss of 2 % was determined among the children at the age group of 2-14 in Turkey
Notwithstanding that the hearing losses are constrained (avoided) in our country by means of hearing scanning tests, conducted by the Ministry of Health at schools and new-born infants, a hearing loss of 2 % was determined among the children at the age group of 2-14 in Turkey according to the last researches, carried out by TUİK (Turkish Statistical Institute). At this point, the Academic Member, Dr. Nurten Küçük, of the Istanbul Gelişim University, who indicated that the medical examinations of ear, nose and throat will bring the most effective results, said that it was possible to make a bionic ear application in the cases where the hearing loss was at very sever stages.
