OUR STORY
OUR STORY
We are out to change things for the millions of Americans like our founder — a biomedical engineer who invented OtoSet® to solve his own problem.
From a young age, our co-founder and chief technology officer has regularly had to visit his physician for ear syringing to fight excessive earwax buildup. After becoming a biomedical engineer, he invented OtoSet® to solve his own problem with ear cleaning. As our team of otolaryngologists and engineers began researching and developing OtoSet®, we learned the true scale of this problem and how frustrating today’s ear cleaning treatment is for both patients and healthcare professionals.
More than 35 million Americans are affected by earwax buildup, which is the leading cause of conductive hearing loss.
Other symptoms can include pain, vertigo, tinnitus, itching, and coughing. Additionally, approximately 60-70% of all damaged hearing aids sent in for repair are simply clogged with earwax or degraded by organic materials. The ear cleaning treatment is very common but has seen little innovation over the last 200 years. This has left healthcare professionals with time-consuming, messy, and antiquated options to provide relief to their patients — until now. OtoSet® is the first automated and FDA-cleared ear cleaning device for clinical use, which is available to healthcare professionals now. Our team at SafKan Health has also started researching and developing a version for home use!