The type of material used in the manufacturing of a custom ear mold is a most important consideration in properly fitting your client. At Ear mold Concepts, a wide variety of F.D.A. approved materials of the highest quality obtainable are available for your selection, to provide your client with an ear mold that satisfies their individual needs.


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Lucite: Hard Clear Acrylic
This material is an excellent all-purpose ear mold material. It is durable, very seldom discolors and allows the greatest versatility for modification. This is available in crystal clear, or tinted in a variety of colors.

Dermatex: Vinyl Solid Flesh
Dermatex retains flexibility regardless of temperature changes. It provides an added degree of comfort and safety and is ideal for tender sensitive ears. Dermatex material is extremely rugged and durable, flexible and specially recommended for children as a safety measure against injury. Dermatex is available in flesh and brown tint.

Protex: Vinyl
Protex has all the qualities of the dermatex, but in addition is a little softer and has the quality of obtaining a very tight seal for your severe losses. Protex is available in clear and tinted pink and brown. It can also be tinted in a variety of primary colors.

Polyethylene: Non-Toxic Hard Plastic
Adverse skin reaction to most earmold materials is very rare. When such an allergy is suspected or takes place, the individual should be referred to a physician for confirmation. Earmold concepts non allergenic, non toxic, polyethylene earmold material is available in most styles of earmolds, and is available in opaque white

Silicone: Solid Flesh Non Allergenic
Silicone molds are made from a medical grade elastomer, the most ideal material for a perfect seal for your problem ear level cases and the ideal solution for your high powered ear level aids that cause feedback. It’s available in flesh and opaque clear and brown and pink.

Soft-Seal: Non Allergenic Silicone
Same quality grade material as silicone flesh, but comes in opaque clear.

Contender #1 Clear: Non Allergenic And Non Toxic
This special formula is a higher grade of silicone material. This material is so pure that it is used for surgical implants. We recommend this for your more severe to profound loss, also for those very sensitive ears. This material is available in opaque clear.

Contender # 2 Beige: Non Allergenic And Non Toxic
This formula is the same as contender #1, but has a difference in color. The contender #2 has a beige tint.

Softex: Soft Acrylic
This material is a semi-rigid material. Soften to the body temperature. And is available in clear and pink and brown.

Medi-Flex: Soft Acrylic
This material is exactly the same as softex, except for the color. It has a solid flesh color.

Medi-Cryl: Hard Flesh
This is an acrylic flesh colored material, it is the same material used to manufacture the ITE and the CIC hearing aid shell.

Hardbody/Softtip:
This material is a hard clear Lucite body with a soft tip canal. Allowing comfort and seal at the same time. This material comes in clear or tinted pink or brown.

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*F.D.A. Approved simply means that the Food & drug administration has approved this material. What this act says is that the plastic must be toxic free to meet the standards as set down for packaging food and anything that pertains to medicine or a medical application, that must be sterile or non toxic.