Custom Ear Molds Material?

I’ve been following a lot of your posts– because like you I am interested in ITE type hearing aids for several reasons—one being fitness activities and two— there are times I want to sleep with at least one hearing aid in my ear.

( I had Bad experience with home alarm system going off in the middle of the night which between sleep and not hearing—- the cops came out. I did not hear them either. So it was kind of a messy situation).
Sleeping with one Oticon Real is not good– not comfortable and I ruined the speaker wire doing that. Replacement for speaker wire is $100 at my audiologist office. I am not well versed in replacing the wire on my own.

My Reals have 100 db speaker-I believe. The audiologist put me in 105db speakers when I trialed the Intents— which turned out to both have issues and defective. So Intents are a “no go” for me.

So my question to you is about venting— I am not well versed in venting vs. non venting. My current skeleton molds are vented.

@cvkemp said:

My audiologist has said that vented receivers would not be an option for me.

Since I am interested in the Phonak Virto R—- are these vented or non-vented? Is venting something I need to be concerned with if I try out the newest Phonak Virto R?

Your audiogram determines if you need vents or not. Actually my ear molds have very small vents, but my big issue is that my aids do not fit snuggly in my canals. And in my thinking my receivers don’t set deep enough in my ear canals to work as efficiently as they should. I honestly believe if my receivers set closer to my ear drums and my ear molds were snuggler then I would not need as powerful receivers. I honestly believe from my research only that Phonak does a better job of fitting ear molds and ITE aids.