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• Presence of a chronic tinnitus (only
applicable for devices which provide the
Tinnitus feature).
Contraindications
General clinical contraindications for the use of
hearing aids and Tinnitus soware are:
• Hearing loss is not in the tting range
of the hearing aid (i.e. gain, frequency
response)
• Acute tinnitus
• Deformity of the ear (i.e. closed ear canal;
absence of the auricle)
• Neural hearing loss (retro-cochlear
pathologies such as absent/non-viable
auditory nerve)
The primary criteria for the referral of a patient
for a medical or other specialist opinion and / or
treatment are as follows:
• Visible congenital or traumatic deformity
of the ear;
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