Share on Pinterest Vladimir Vladimirov/Getty Images This article discusses what an audiogram shows, what the symbols mean, what doctors consider a normal range, and what a person might do next ...

The audiogram will connect your various threshold levels for each ear. This line indicates your level of hearing ability across loudness and frequency. Normal hearing measures between -10 and 25 ...

The audiogram of a person with normal hearing might look like this, showing that they can hear soft sounds that fall between 0 and 20 decibels. The area in blue shows the frequencies and decibel ...

In fact, in a study of more than 100,000 patient records from a 16-year period, about 10 percent of patients who visited the audiology clinic at Massachusetts Eye and Ear had a normal audiogram.

“You can have tremendous damage to inner hair cells in the ear that transmit information to the brain and still have a normal audiogram,” says Salvi. “But people with this type of damage have ...