text:  Okay, and by treatment, you mean what? Sometimes it's risk managed with hearing aids, and there are definitely a lot of different settings in the hearing aids to help different types of tinnitus. So that's where we would just talk about different options that could be best for that patient. Well, particularly with today's technology and the way in which hearing aids cannot be programmed, I'm stunned at the advances in that technology. Exactly, and the goal is really to distract the brain from the tinnitus it's producing to listen to external sounds such as the speaker and your friends and family.