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The study was a retrospective review of patients\u2019 data with a prospective design who had subjective idiopathic tinnitus and received acupuncture between May 2012 and August 2017. Patients\u2019 demographics, tinnitus characteristics, previous diseases, underlying diseases, oral habits, audiograms, acupuncture sessions, and acupoints were recorded and analyzed. 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Good treatment responses in patients were defined as the magnitude of change from the baseline <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M2\"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">V<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">A<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">S<\/mml:mi><\/mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">l<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">o<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">u<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">d<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">n<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">e<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">s<\/mml:mi><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">s<\/mml:mi><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:msub><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:math> for \u2265 30% plus CGI-I \u2264 3 points. In total, 107 patients were enrolled. Most factors were not significantly associated with the treatment effectiveness of acupuncture in tinnitus patients. Only the combination of acupoints and the number of acupuncture sessions reached statistically significant differences. Further analyzing these two factors, we confirmed that the combination of periauricular and distal acupuncture and 17 to 24 acupuncture sessions contributed to a considerably better outcome. 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