No Evidence of Broadband Noise Having Any Harmful Effect on Hearing

To the Editor Attarha et al recommended that sound therapies using white noise should be avoided as treatments for tinnitus. This advice might stem from the authors ’ collective lack of clinical experience assessing and treating patients with tinnitus, or from their unfamiliarity with tinnitus management techniques and associated literature. In any case, before recommending that white noise should be avoided by patients with tinnitus, Attarha et al should bec ome more familiar with how a variety of sound therapies—including broadband sounds—often help this patient population.

Source: JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery - January 24, 2019 Category: ENT & OMF Source Type: research