Method | Advantages | Disadvantages |
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Tinnitus retraining therapy(TRT) and white noise masking [10] | Provides alleviation from Tinnitus to some extent by causing the patient to stop focusing on the Tinnitus noise | Affects normal hearing, risk of the human brain to recall Tinnitus associated with sound, Inaccurate results |
Synthesizing music for Tinnitus treatment based on the chaos [4] |
No issue of patient recalling Tinnitus sound associated with a particular kind of music | Affects normal hearing |
Android Based Treatment Method [23] |
Portable, easy communication and monitoring between doctor and patient | Lack of accuracy in suppression |
Signal Processing and System Design for Tinnitus Treatment [28] |
Better accuracy in Tinnitus suppression |
Lacks accuracy in comparison to recent, advanced methods, Lacks scalability Model |
Acoustic CR Neuromodulation [38] |
One of the most accurate Tinnitus suppression methods currently in existence | Extremely and unfeasibly high cost |
Medication [8] | Does not require bulky equipment to be attached to the body at all times | Causes severe side effects and reduces the effect only to a certain extent. Also, medication does not work in all cases |