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FORT WORTH, Texas – Eosera Inc. announced that it is now offering Earwax MD to nursing home facilities across the nation primarily through key partnerships.
“Hearing loss is indeed common among the elderly, but it is also largely avoidable in many cases. Often, it is a direct result of severe earwax impaction, resulting from failure to keep the ears clean,” Elyse Dickerson, co-founder and chief executive officer of Eosera, Inc. said in a statement. “In our ongoing conversations with healthcare professionals, we have identified this population as one that truly and urgently needs an effective solution to alleviate the discomfort related to earwax impaction, and they need it on premises.”
According to the 2017 ENT Clinical Practice guidelines, excessive or impacted cerumen (earwax) is present in 1 in 10 children, 1 in 20 adults, and more than half of the geriatric population. In the developmentally delayed adult population, up to 36% have excessive or impacted earwax.
About 18 million people in the United States annually seek medical care for problematic earwax, resulting in millions of earwax removal procedures. The presence of earwax impaction has been associated with hearing loss in these populations.
To help support this demographic, Eosera recently formed a partnership with VitalMedix, Inc., which sells health care supplies to nursing homes and long-term care hospitals. Now, nursing homes and long-term care facilities around the nation will be able to purchase Earwax MD directly from VitalMedix to use in their offices.
“Nursing home residents have a difficult time going to the doctor or audiologist. In most cases, they rely on caregivers and healthcare professionals to come to them to conduct health screenings, and general ear cleaning, including earwax removal,” said Jeff Gurley, chief executive officer and founder of VitalMedix.
“Current consumer products for earwax removal have not been working adequately to dissolve wax. We are delighted to have found Earwax MD and have determined it to be the most valuable product on the market today for ear cleaning,” he added.
