According to research out of Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Missouri, and The Ear Institute of Texas, San Antonio, your new Nissan 350Z convertible may be exciting, but it can also damage your hearing.

Are you one of the more than twenty-two million American workers exposed to excessive levels of noise in the workplace? Are you one of those listening to music with loud headphones, shooting firearms on a consistent basis, riding motorcycles, or working with motorized lawn and garden tools? These devices can cause individual hearing loss at alarmingly high rates. Most noise is painless, and the damage caused from excessive noise is progressive, permanent and preventable. 

Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common type of hearing loss and most often caused by damage to the inner ear, for a variety of reasons.