OBJECTIVES This study aims to detect whether any differences were present between betahistine dihydrochloride, transcutaneal electrical nerve stimulation and pure tone masking-tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) methods in the effects on quality of life and treatment of the symptoms of the patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 91 patients (42 females, 49 males; mean age 49.3±8.3 years; rang...

introduction: we investigated the effect of intratympanic dexamethasone on control of tinnitus and hearing loss in patients with meniere’s disease.  materials and methods: 100 consecutive patients with a diagnosis of meniere’s disease according to the 1995 criteria of the american academy of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery (aao–hns) who remained symptomatic despite medical therapy were a...

Introduction: We investigated the effect of intratympanic dexamethasone on control of tinnitus and hearing loss in patients with Meniere’s disease.  Materials and Methods: 100 consecutive patients with a diagnosis of Meniere’s disease according to the 1995 criteria of The American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (AAO–HNS) who remained symptomatic despite medical therapy were a...

“It’s tinnitus. There’s nothing we can do for you. You’ll just have to learn to live with it.” Those words—so frequently uttered by an authority figure in a white coat—all too often hammer the first nail into the coffin of fear and despair in a person turning to a doctor for enlightenment and hope. As I see it, from a clinical perspective, we have three duties to patients presenting to us with ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of medium-level laser therapy in chronic tinnitus treatment. In a prospective double-blind placebo-controlled trial, either active laser (450 mW, 830 nm combined Ga-Al-As diode laser) or placebo irradiation was applied through the external acoustic meatus of the affected ear towards the cochlea. Fourty-eight patients with chronic tinnitus wer...

BACKGROUND Pharmacological treatment of tinnitus cannot be considered well established. Thus, reducing tinnitus severity through behavioral therapy is emerging as a key goal. METHODS A total of 286 patients suffering from persistent and stable tinnitus for four months or longer participated in this controlled clinical multicenter study. The study investigated the efficacy and safety of a stan...

INTRODUCTION Tinnitus is considered as one of the major symptom associated with many pathologies along with its presence in individuals with normal hearing. With varied cause and mechanism of its generation and increase in number of individuals with complaint of tinnitus, rehabilitation becomes crucial for Audiologists. OBJECTIVE Study was undertaken to find the efficacy of Residual Inhibitio...

Sound therapy, or use of any sound for the purpose of tinnitus management, is widely accepted as a management tool for reduction of tinnitus complaints. The rationale for the use of sound is minimizing the patient’s perception of tinnitus by effectively reducing the perception of tinnitus relative to environmental sounds (Del Bo & Ambrosetti, 2007; Folmer & Carroll, 2006). Despite this common r...