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Tinnitus maskers

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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  • tinnitus maskers
    • are devices similar to hearing aids that are designed to produce white noise in an ear to mask the perception of tinnitus
    • the generated noise needs to be acceptable to the patient and, importantly, suitably different from the tinnitus to permit masking.
    • maskers may desensitise the patient to tinnitus over a period of time; habituation may eventually reduce the need for the masker
      • open or vented ear moulds are more acceptable than the closed type.
    • environmental masking relies on natural noises to distract the individual: this may take the form of soft music or television.
    • here sound therapy is used to reduce the effects of tinnitus in many ways: (1)
      • by partial masking
        • there is mixing of background sound with the tinnitus
        • patient still hears the tinnitus
      • by total masking
        • the background sound masks the tinnitus completely

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