Custom Hearing Protection

First comes an otoscopic look to confirm both canals are clear and healthy, since wax will ruin an impression. Dr. Ometz then seats a small foam oto-block in the canal and injects a soft silicone material that sets in a few minutes and captures the exact shape of your ear. It is painless, and the whole appointment usually runs about 30 minutes.

Your impressions go to the lab, where the plugs are made in the material, filter, and color you chose. Most orders come back in two to three weeks, and we check the seal at a short follow-up before you take them home. Cared for properly, a good set lasts three to five years. Call 410-766-6320 to schedule.

Yes, and it is one of the reasons people find us. Plenty of patients already have a manufacturer picked out, whether for stage monitors, a shooting rig, or a specialty earpiece, and simply need someone qualified to take the ear impressions. You can book that appointment by itself and take the impressions with you.

This has become a genuine gap in the area. More than one patient has arrived after searching well outside Glen Burnie for a provider still doing impression work. Musicians, hunters, and industrial workers travel in from Pasadena, Severn, Crofton, and Linthicum for the same reason. Call 410-766-6320 and tell us which lab you are sending to.

That is exactly what the filter choice decides. Most patients want the harmful energy cut while speech, music, and situational awareness stay intact, and custom plugs are far better at that than foam, which tends to smother everything unevenly. Dr. Ometz matches attenuation to your actual exposure during the fitting.

Musicians usually land on filters that drop the level 15 to 25 decibels without skewing the frequencies. Industrial crews often need more across the board. Sleep and swim molds use a solid design with no filter at all, since hearing through them is not the point. We walk through the trade-offs in plain language at our Suite 509 office in Crain Towers.