Cleaning Your Hearing Instrument - oticon IIc Instructions For Use Manual

cleaning your hearing instrument

• Clean away any traces of wax from around the ventilation canals, microphone inlets and
sound outlet with the MultiTool brush. Hardened sediments can be removed with the
wire loop in the MultiTool. If the microphone inlets or the sound outlet are clogged by
dust or dirt, this will affect the performance of the instrument.
• Clean the ventilation canal by pressing the brush through the hole while twisting it
slightly.
Cleaning the
microphone inlet
Cleaning the
ventilation canal
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• If the ventilation canal is very small a special tool may be required in order to clean it.
Your Hearing Care Professional can advise.
• Use the cloth to wipe the surface of the instrument clean.
• If the white wax filter (ProWax: see page 40) placed in the sound outlet seems filled up
and blocked by ear wax, it must be replaced.
• If the microphone wax filter (O-Cap or T-Cap: see page 7a, 7b or 7c) seems filled up
and blocked by ear wax, it must be replaced (T-Cap: see page 42, O-Cap: see page 44).
Ventilation cleaning
tool for small canals
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