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Beltone Hearing Intruments – with Tinnitus Breaker Pro
A tinnitus masker is an electronic device intended to generate noise of sufficient intensity and bandwidth to
mask internal noises. It is also used as an aid in hearing external noises and speech. The Tinnitus Sound
Generator can generate sounds adjusted to the specific therapeutic needs and your personal preference
as determined by your doctor, audiologist, or hearing care professional. Depending on the selected hear-
ing instrument programme and the environment you are in, you will sometimes hear the therapeutic sound
resembling a continuous or fluctuating humming.
Prescription Use for Sound Generator Users
Please use the device as prescribed by your doctor, audiologist, or hearing care professional. Should you
develop any side effects from using the instrument, such as dizziness, nausea, headaches, perceived de-
crease in auditory function or increase in tinnitus perception, you should discontinue use of the device and
seek medical evaluation. In order to avoid permanent hearing damages, the maximum daily usage depends
on the level of the generated sound.
The target population is primarily the adult population over 18 years of age. This product may also be used
with children 5 years of age or older. However, children and physically or mentally challenged users will
require training by a doctor, audiologist, hearing care professional or the guardian for the insertion and
removal of the device.
Important Notice to Prospective Users
Good health practice requires that a person with a hearing loss and/or a tinnitus condition have a medical
evaluation by a licensed physician (preferably a physician who specializes in diseases of the ear) before
using a hearing instrument and/or a sound generator, such as the Beltone Legend. The purpose of a medi-
cal evaluation is to ensure that all medically treatable conditions that may affect hearing and/or tinnitus are
identified and treated before the hearing instrument and/or sound generator is used.
The sound generator instrument is a tool to generate sounds to be used with appropriate counselling and/
or in a tinnitus management programme to relieve patients suffering from tinnitus.
User instructions for the TSG module
Description of the device
The Tinnitus Sound Generator (TSG) module is a software tool that generates sounds to be used in tinnitus
management programmes to relieve suffering from tinnitus.
Explanation of how the device functions
The TSG module is a frequency and amplitude shaped white-noise generator. Noise signal level and fre-
quency characteristics can be adjusted to the specific therapeutic needs as determined by your doctor,
audiologist or hearing healthcare professional.
Your doctor, audiologist or hearing healthcare professional can modulate the generated noise with the
purpose of making it more pleasant. The noise can then resemble, for example, crashing waves on a shore.
Modulation level and speed can also be configured to your likes and needs.
