How Common is the Problem: 3. Lifelong Impacts
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3Lifelong Impacts of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

There are many reasons why it is so important to prevent noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus, starting at a young age.
  • Risk of poorer academic performance
  • May become ineligible for military service
  • May become ineligible for jobs such as an airplane pilot, police officer, or emergency dispatcher
  • Financial disadvantages due to lower income earning potential and cost of hearing care and hearing devices during your lifetime
  • Decreased quality of life
Tuning fork iconThere are lifelong impacts of noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus.

Prepare your ears for the future….

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Noise-induced haring loss sneaks up on us. We don’t always know that hearing damage is occurring and by the time we do, there may be permanent changes that we can’t recover. It is important to start prevention early in life and learn to take care of our hearing so that it can last a lifetime.

This is why we are so glad you are completing this online training! You will become part of the solution once you are a Dangerous Decibels educator and deliver the program to others.

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