Harrison550 Mamaroneck Ave, Suite 407 (4th floor)(914) 949-0034
Somers325 NY 100(914) 556-6720
Tinnitus care
Evaluation and management for ringing, buzzing, humming, and sound sensitivity.
Tinnitus Management
Tinnitus is sound you hear that has no source outside your head: ringing, buzzing, hissing, a hum, sometimes a roar. For some people it stays in the background. For others it owns the evening and the first hour of the night.
The first job is finding out what sits underneath it. Tinnitus commonly arrives alongside hearing loss, so the work starts with a hearing test and a look in the ears.
Dr. Ratner and Dr. Savin both hold the CH-TM certificate in tinnitus management, and Dr. Dold does tinnitus testing and treatment. Care here means counseling, sound strategies, hearing aids where there is hearing loss to treat, and the Lenire pathway for patients who meet its candidacy criteria.
Step 1
We take the history: when it started, one ear or both, what makes it worse, what it costs you in sleep and concentration.
Step 2
We test your hearing, because tinnitus and hearing loss usually travel together.
Step 3
We explain the findings and what a realistic target looks like for your case.
Step 4
We agree a plan: counseling and sound strategies, hearing aids where there is loss to treat, tinnitus programming in your devices, or a Lenire candidacy discussion.
Some tinnitus belongs with a physician first: tinnitus that pulses with your heartbeat, or that is new in one ear alongside a drop in hearing. For everyone else, understand what management means here. Nobody will promise to switch the sound off.
Before you schedule
The most productive hearing-care visits start with specific examples. Bring the moments where listening breaks down, the devices or apps you already use, and the questions you want answered.
The ringing follows you into bed and delays sleep. You cannot hold your concentration through it at work.
We take the history: when it started, one ear or both, what makes it worse, what it costs you in sleep and concentration.
Some tinnitus belongs with a physician first: tinnitus that pulses with your heartbeat, or that is new in one ear alongside a drop in hearing. For everyone else, understand what management means here. Nobody will promise to switch the sound off.
What to expect
When the sound started, what it sounds like, whether it is in one ear or both, what makes it better or worse, and how much it is affecting sleep, concentration, stress and daily life.
Tinnitus and hearing loss commonly occur together, even in patients who have not noticed any hearing difficulty. Testing may include a hearing evaluation, speech understanding, middle-ear measures and an ear inspection.
Some patients benefit from matching the frequency and level their tinnitus most closely resembles. It is not a severity score; it is a starting point for counseling and a way to track change.
What we found, what we did not, and which management options actually apply to you: education, sound strategies, hearing aids, maskers, treating an allergy or earwax that is making it worse, a Lenire candidacy conversation, or a medical referral.
Recommendations are personalized rather than generic, and nobody here will promise you a cure. What the first visit does is establish whether hearing loss, earwax, noise exposure or a medication is part of the picture, and what can be done about the part that is treatable.
Tinnitus care at the Harrison office runs alongside NYHD | TinnitusCare, who have been seeing patients there since February 2024 and whose options include Lenire, a bimodal neuromodulation device holding FDA De Novo authorization for the treatment of tinnitus. De Novo is a marketing authorization for a device type the FDA had not classified before — it is not a finding that the device will work for you, and candidacy is decided after an evaluation. Several of our audiologists are Certificate Holders of Tinnitus Management (CH-TM), recognized by the American Board of Audiology.
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Not on its own. Tinnitus and hearing changes commonly occur together, which is why a hearing test comes first.
When hearing loss is present, treating it is the first step and often changes how intrusive the tinnitus is. Most current platforms also carry tinnitus sound programs that we can set up during the fitting.
Any previous hearing tests, ENT or imaging reports, your medication list, and a note of when the tinnitus is at its worst.
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