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Abstract Estimation of the exact incidence of pediatric USNHL is difficult because children with USNHL may pass unnoticed until school age where it manifests as educational and social delay due to absence of binaural hearing in a noisy environment. Audiological assessment allows diagnosis and follow up of the hearing loss while radiological investigations allows diagnosis of the cause of hearing loss. Concurrently both can be used to map the proper intervention for each case. Also, A functioning screening system is still under development; so, it is difficult to point out and follow up of children with risk factors of hearing loss. There are several types of hearing aids can be given but none them allows binaural hearing to develop because they deliver sounds to the brain through contralateral routing of signal. Cochlear implantation in USNHL is an emerging option that can help in the development of true binaural hearing at the brain level. |