The potential offered for all members of a New England family during the Industrial Revolution in America, for men, women, and even children, was not the only important paradigm shift that occurred.
Often the tinnitus is only in one ear. In some of these situations, the tinnitus can be treated surgically, and thus a visit to an otologist (a physician specializing in the ear) is advisable. Sensorineural tinnitus can have many causes (e.g. noise, medications, head injury, infections, and aging).
Tinnitus is usually static noise in the auditory system that is associated with loss of sound from the external environment. Therefore, tinnitus is common and in most, but not all, cases it is associated with some degree of hearing loss. The most common causes of tinnitus are damage to the high frequency hearing by exposure to loud noise or elevated levels of common drugs that can be toxic to the inner ear in high doses.