Objective：To observe and compare the clinical effect of needle-embedding therapy and common acupuncture therapy for sensorineural hearing loss.Methods：Divided 64 cases of patients with sensorineural hearing loss randomly into needle-embedding group and common acupuncture group，32 cases in each group.Needle-embedding group was given needle-embedding therapy on Ermen，Tinggong，Tinghui at affected sides，while common acupuncture group was given common acupuncture for treatment.As an evaluation index，improvements of pure tone audiometry were compared between the two groups before and after treatment.Results：The total effective rate was 56.25%in needle-embedding group and 21.88%in common acupuncture group.The comparison of total effective rate between the two groups showed significance in the difference(P ＜0.05)， which indicated the clinical effect in needle-embedding group was better than that in common acupuncture group.After treatment，the comparison of each frequency displayed in each group before and after treatment were significance in differences(P＜0.05)，implying that there was certain clinical effect on treating sensorineural hearing loss with the two therapies.Compared the difference value before and after treatment in both groups，differences being significant(P＜0.05，P＜0.01)，which suggested that improvements of pure tone audiometry at each frequency in needle-embedding group were better than those in common acupuncture group.Conclusion：Both needle-embedding therapy at the first three points of the ear and common pure tone audiometry therapy have curative effect on treating sensorineural hearing loss.In terms of the curative effect，the former one is superior to the latter.