Home Impression Kit and Prepaid Return Label Included With Every Custom OrderImpression Kit + Return Label Included
For dentists, hygienists and dental assistants
The handpiece, the ultrasonic scaler and the HVE run a short lean from your ears, patient after patient. The One is a custom filtered earplug designed to turn that down while your patient, the doctor and your assistant still come through. It sits in the bowl of your ear, clear of loupe temples, headlamp straps and mask loops.
The One Select $299.95, Standard $224.95 · kit included
Sound familiar?
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Why a filtered earplug
A solid plug shuts out the patient in your chair along with the drill. Every pair of The One has two filters: a face filter you choose, and a non-linear filter in the canal designed for sudden loud sound. No batteries, nothing to charge.
How the plug works
Every pair of The One has an acoustic filter in its face. Instead of blocking sound, it lets natural sound through at a lower level, so the handpiece, the scaler and the suction come down while your patient, your assistant and the doctor still come through clearly.
The filter also lets a controlled amount of air pass both ways, so the pressure in your ear canal stays even with the room. It is designed to prevent the sealed, plugged-up feeling of a solid, unvented earplug, so they are made to stay comfortable from your first patient to your last.
Choose your pair
Filtered custom earplug
The One Select, recommended for dental teams: 9 dB and 15 dB filter sets, so you can match the filter to the appointment.
The One Standard: one filter set. Choose 9 dB if most of your day is talking with patients, 15 dB if scaling and preps fill it.
What customers say
How it works
Questions
The filter is designed to lower sound across pitches instead of cutting the high pitches that carry speech, so voices come through quieter rather than muffled. Start with 9 dB for exams, consults and anything where you are talking with the patient.
The One is a low-profile half shell that sits in the bowl of your ear, designed to stay clear of loupe temples, headlamp straps and mask loops. Because it is molded to your ear, it is made to stay seated as you lean in and turn your head.
Put them in before you wash up and glove. The custom fit is made to keep them seated through the appointment, so there is less reason to touch your ears chairside. At the end of the day, wipe them clean and store them dry.
Match the filter to the work: 9 dB for exams, consults and patient education, 15 dB for preps and ultrasonic scaling. The One Select includes both, which is why we recommend it for dental teams. The One Standard includes one filter set.
Yes. Call us at (719) 271-4528 and we will help you plan filters and timing for the dentists, hygienists and assistants on your team. Every pair includes its own home impression kit.
Order The One Select and your home impression kit arrives in 3 to 5 business days. Impressions take about 15 to 20 minutes. We build your pair by hand in the USA in about 40 business days from when your impressions reach the lab, or 20 business days with the $50 rush build. If the fit is off in the first 30 days, we adjust it.
How it works
Your ears don't change when you switch hobbies, so your protection shouldn't either. The same custom-molded shell that protects a musician on stage protects a rider at 80 mph, a dentist over a drill, a pilot in the cockpit, and a machinist on the floor. You buy the fit once and adapt it to the moment by changing the filter, not by buying a different product.
"Turn the room down, not off."
The colored, interchangeable filters. Each lowers every frequency by about the same amount, so sound keeps its natural balance, voices, music, and warnings stay clear, just safely quieter. This is what makes the plugs hi-fi. Levels: 9, 15, 20, 25, and 30 dB.
"Open when it's quiet, clamped when it's loud."
A separate, level-dependent filter. It passes normal sound almost untouched so you keep full situational awareness, then automatically tightens against sudden, dangerous peaks, a gunshot, a backfire, an impact. Protection arrives only when the noise spikes.
Every off-the-shelf product makes you pick one behavior and live with it. Because the Big Ear shell is custom and the filters are interchangeable, you carry both and match the filter to the environment in seconds. No foam plug, and no single-filter "musician" plug, can match that range at this fidelity.
Maximum sealed silence. No filter path, the custom shell simply blocks. For sleep, heavy machinery, or any time you want the most reduction and don't need to hear in.
Adaptive protection that keeps you connected to sound while protecting you, with the filter swapped to the situation. Choose this when you still need to hear, with studio-grade clarity.
| Tier | Price | What you get | Who it's for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $224.95 | The custom filtered shell + one flat-attenuation filter of your choice. | You know the one environment you need. |
| Select | $299.95 | The shell + any two flat-attenuation filters you pick. | You move between two settings and want to swap. |
| Premium | $574.95 | The shell + all five flat filters + the non-linear filter + solid Full-Stop blockers + a tactical radio earpiece. The complete system. | You want every environment covered out of the box, from hi-fi listening to dead silence. |
The shell and fit are identical across all three, what you buy up the ladder is range. Start at Standard and add filters anytime; you're never locked in.
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What happens after you pay
A custom set cannot exist until we have the shape of your ears. The kit we send takes a mold every bit as good as one taken in a clinic, it is what most of our customers use, and it is what the lab builds from. If you would rather have it done for you, any audiologist can, or you can visit one of our providers. It costs the same either way.
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