11. Feeling of balanced hearing.

Two-eared hearing results in a feeling of balanced reception of sound, also known as the stereo effect, whereas monaural hearing creates an unusual feeling of sounds being heard in one ear.

12. Tinnitus Masking

About 50 percent of people with ringing in their ears reported improvement when wearing hearing aids. If you have a hearing aid in only one ear, there will still be ringing in the unaided ear.

Excerpt by Sergei Kochkin, Ph.D.

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