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What characteristics of earwax can cause a tinnitus? its size, or its location?
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Earwax not related: Tinnitus is ringing in the ears caused by damage to the hearing nerve. Earwax typically has to do with local hearing loss not tinnitus. Earwax can locally block hearing. Tinnitus is ringing heard at the frequency of the damage and is essentially the brain thinking it heard a sound at that frequency when there is no sound. Treatment is not very effective for tinnitus but is for ear wax removal.
Answered 12/9/2013
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