Earmolds And Ear Impressions CEU Courses

Product customization is essential for delivering a truly personalized experience and aligns perfectly with the concept of person-centered care. Customization increases satisfaction, trust, and creates differentiation between the products you prescribe and the over-the-counter or online products that are now available. From custom hearing aids to earpieces for a variety of applications, custom ear impressions are the foundation to a successful fitting. This course will review techniques for mastering the art and science of taking ear impressions in a safe and successful manner.

This courses focuses on achieving a proper ear mold impression and the impact the impression has on custom in-the-ear hearing aid and custom receiver design. This course also reviews the manufacturing process for custom hearing aids and receivers to set appropriate expectations.

This course discusses a new, validated, and open-source method for creating same-day ear molds. By using 3D printing, 3D scanning, and open-source software, hearing healthcare providers can go beyond professional practice guidelines to make appropriately fitting, custom ear molds.

Hearing aid fittings can be enhanced by understanding the effects of available acoustic couplings. This course will review the current earmold options offered by Signia for BTE and RIC hearing instruments and will explore hearing protection options for your patients.

This course focuses on the factors related to successfully achieving a proper ear mold impression and the characteristics and impacts on custom in-the-ear hearing aid design. It also reviews the manufacturing process as it relates to custom in-the-ear hearing aids and the key landmarks and physical components that directly impact size and discretion. In addition, this course will review the tools available from Phonak that support a deeper, more complete ear mold impression process as well as tools used to determine candidacy for in-the-ear products.

This course intends to explain acoustical challenges due to size restrictions and guide for configuring earmold for desired acoustical gain. Size of the ear canal will determine hearing aid type as well as earmold acoustic configuration.

This course demonstrates the importance of simulation in clinical training and outlines specific lessons in which CARL can be incorporated in. From basic lessons introducing the components of a hearing aid to advanced fitting of a high-gain hearing aid, this patient simulator provides several validated benefits to existing audiology curriculums.

This course reviews the pros and cons of open-canal versus occluding ear-coupling systems for hearing aids, and presents comparative data of three different options. Data was collected for both laboratory testing and real-world judgments.

A custom earmold is an essential component of any hearing aid device to obtain 100% of desired acoustic performance. This course provides a guide for selecting appropriate earmold material, style, and aesthetical options.