- Hi guys, Clifford Olson, doctor of audiology
and founder of applied hearing solutions
in Phoenix, Arizona.
And in this video, I'm gonna show you
the best way to find out if you actually
have ear wax inside of your ear canals, coming up.
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Impacted ear wax inside of your ear canals,
can give you a variety of different symptoms.
Anything from having plugged ears,
to an actual hearing loss,
to itching ears in even physical ear pain.
But you might be surprised to realize
that ear wax is only one of the things
that can cause all of these symptoms.
You would not believe how many times
that people call up my clinic and schedule
an appointment for ear wax removal
only to come into the clinic and have us find out
that they have no ear wax inside of their ears whatsoever.
In fact, I've even received negative one star reviews
on my Google listing for my clinic
from patients who felt ripped off
because they scheduled an ear wax removal appointment
only to come in and find out that they have no ear wax.
I mean, what is this world coming to?
That's why I think it's extremely important
for you to be able to identify if you actually have ear wax
before you schedule professional ear wax removal
from an audiologist, or before you attempt
to remove ear wax on yourself.
Of course, the only way to actually identify
if you have ear wax inside of your own ear canals
is to see it for yourself.
And one of the best ways to do this
is to purchase a low cost video otoscope
like the ear view MD.
But before I get into my review of the ear view MD,
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And let's go ahead and check out the ear view MD
to see how good this actually works,
to see if you have ear wax.
Now, a little disclaimer here
before I get started so you can't sue me.
While I do recommend
actually looking inside of your own ears,
I never recommend that you stick something inside
of your ear canals to try to remove wax on yourself.
If you're going to try to remove wax on yourself
I'm totally cool with it just make sure
that you're using something like a eardrops softener
for that wax and then irrigate it out of your ears
as long as you do not have a perforation, in your eardrum
you will probably be okay doing it that way.
Otherwise, I recommend going to a licensed audiologist
who can professionally remove your ear wax
so they can do it safely
without causing permanent hearing loss.
As far as ear cameras go, there are a lot of them
that you can buy online and a lot of them
are complete garbage.
One of the reasons that I actually like the ear view MD
from Eosera, is because Eosera
is actually a reputable company.
They are made here in the United States,
in Fort Worth, Texas.
They are completely wireless,
so you do not have to have them plugged in.
They're relatively cheap
and you can find them on Amazon really easily.
That being said, I will have a link of the ear view MD
in the description of this video
if you wanna check one out for yourself.
I think I spent 20 bucks to get this one
and just be aware there are counterfeit products out there.
So any product that's a good product
you will find counterfeits,
all of those counterfeits are garbage.
So just make sure that you get
the name brand Eosera, ear view MD.
All right, let's see what you actually get inside
of the ear view MD box.
Of course you get your camera
that you'll use inside of your ear.
They come with a warranty card.
So this warranty card,
you can actually register your device
to get a one year warranty on it.
They come with a user manual, which is extremely important,
I can't tell you how many of these types of products
that I've purchased, they do not come with the user manual.
So it is very confusing how to set them up.
This user manual is very straightforward
and super simple to follow and get your device set up.
You have a micro USB cable
that you'll use to charge your device.
You have a microfiber cloth
that you can use to clean the lens.
You do not want to scratch the lens.
So that is very important.
You get a couple of different sizes of ear tips.
So they have a pediatric ear tip.
I don't really recommend
that you stick things inside of baby's ears.
So maybe if you have a small ear canal as an adult
you can go ahead and use the pediatric tip.
They also do have an adult size tip for you as well.
And then they do have these two ear wax removal scoops
that you can put on to the end of the ear camera.
Again, like I said before
I never recommend sticking anything inside
of your ears to clean out ear wax.
If you're gonna clean out your own ears
do ear wax softeners and do irrigation,
do not stick a tool inside of your ear canal.
If you do happen to stick a tool inside of your ear canal
and actually hurt your ears after the pain subsides,
and after you go through a surgical procedure
to try to save your hearing, imagine me saying,
I told you so.
The ear view MD is compatible
with Android devices and Apple devices.
So you do not need any kind of special adapter
to plugin in to your actual phone.
Because again, remember this is a wireless device.
To set up the ear view MD you first have
to actually plug it in and charge it.
It does not come with much of a charge,
so, use the micro USB to USB charging cable
give it a good charge.
And while that's charging, you can go ahead
and take out the user manual
and you can scan the QR code here to download the app.
Now you don't need the QR code to download the app
you can go to the app store or the Google play store
and you can type in Eosera because the name
of that app is actually Eosera.
To connect the ear view MD,
you are not going to use Bluetooth.
I know that you're probably thinking
that this is a Bluetooth compatible device.
It is not Bluetooth compatible.
What it is is wifi compatible.
So you're actually going to disconnect
from your current wifi and you are going to connect
to the wifi of the ear view MD.
The Eosera app will let you see through the camera
and let you toggle between wide lens or a focus lens.
Unfortunately, this does not actually give you
a wider field of view.
It just makes the image larger when you use wide lens
and smaller, when you use focus lens.
You can toggle between left ear or right ear
and you can even take a photo or do a screen recording.
Once you get everything set up in the app, you can go ahead
and remove the lid to turn on that your view MD ear camera,
and then you can take this little adaptor
and put it right on the tip.
So this kind of gives you an idea
of what that will look like.
That is the light with the camera on, and there.
And then you can go ahead
and stick it just into the opening of your ear canal.
You do not want to push this
all the way down inside of your ear canal.
This portion right here, I measured it.
It's approximately 29 millimeters.
And that is long enough for you
to actually touch your eardrum with this.
So again, do not stick it deep inside of your ear canal
only stick it as far as to get this tip right
in the opening of your ear.
I do love that the tip of this is actually thinner.
A lot of the different ear cameras
that I've seen online have a much thicker end
which is really hard to get it into your ear canal,
if you have a really small ear canal.
The camera on this thing actually
has pretty good resolution.
It is almost as good as what you would find
with a professional video otoscope
inside of an audiology clinic.
That being said, it does not have the quickest resolution.
So when you're actually looking inside of your ear,
you do have to go kind of slow
because the upload to your phone is well rather slow.
Here is a side by side view of the video resolution
between the ear view MD on your left
and a professional video otoscope on your right.
While the professional otoscope is better,
the ear view MD does get the job done.
Another really interesting feature on this ear view MD
is that no matter how you hold it
it still keeps the what you're seeing
in the proper orientation.
So you're not gonna be accidentally looking inside
of your ear canal upside down.
It was something that kind of caught me off guard
when I was first trying to learn how to use it.
But it is a really impressive feature,
and I applaud Eosera, for thinking of it.
So let's talk about what you should actually
be looking for when you stick this inside of your ear.
If you, you see something like this, that is your eardrum,
it will look translucent
and it will have something right here
that is called the handle of the malleus.
Now, if you see something more like this
that is ear wax, typically the darker the color
the longer it has been in your ear canal
and the harder it will be to remove.
That being said if you are having symptoms
that makes you feel like you have ear wax
inside of your ear canals,
and you look inside of your ears and there is no ear wax.
All you see is a normal ear canal with a normal eardrum.
Then you should be contacting an audiologist right away
to have them do some additional testing on you
because those symptoms are being caused by something.
For instance, it could be a negative middle ear pressure
caused by Eustachian tube dysfunction.
It could be a hole in your ear drum.
It could be cholesteatoma that is growing inside
of your middle ear space.
It could even be a tumor that is growing
on your auditory nerve that requires surgery.
Overall using an ear camera like the ear view MD
is a terrific way to identify
if you actually have ear wax inside of your ear canals.
And if you do, you can go ahead
and get that ear wax professionally removed
or you can attempt to remove it yourself using irrigation.
So if you think that you have ear wax
inside of your ear canals, but you are not 100 percent sure.
Getting an ear camera like the ear view MD
could be a terrific place to start.
That's it for this video.
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