Radiant Impressions vs. ContourMed Custom Prosthesis

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Radiant Impressions vs. ContourMed Custom Prosthesis

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  • Moissy
    Moissy Member Posts: 550
    edited February 2008

    I have had the Radiant Impressions custom prosthesis and liked it. But now see that ContourMed offers something similar, but affixes with magnets somehow on a sticky thing attached to your chest wall. Has anybody seen ContourMed or used one? Thanks.

  • Moissy
    Moissy Member Posts: 550
    edited February 2008

    I have had the Radiant Impressions custom prosthesis for several years. I see there is a new custom prosthesis called ContourMed in which they scan your body to create the form. ContourMed also attaches using some sort of magnet attached to your chest wall with a sticky thing of some sort. I am due for a new prosthesis. Has anyone seen or heard anything about ContourMed? Thanks.

  • JanClare
    JanClare Member Posts: 305
    edited February 2008

    My fitter, who does the Radiant Impressions, was at first very excited about this.  However, she has since told me that the company has all kinds of problems with the machine (probably too high tech for most people to use easily), and that the old fashion plaster casting of RI seems to work better at this point.  I ordered a RI the end of last year just because my insurance would pay for it without any cost to me, since I'd already met my out of pocket for 2007.  

    Of course she is also unhappy because RI has moved their factory to another state and the new people working at the new facility just don't seem to do as excellent a job as the craftspeople at the old factory.   She has sent mine back twice now because it was the wrong color or didn't meet her standards.  She told me she never had this kind of problems at the old factory.  

    I'm not stressing about it because I know that eventually i'll get something.  Right at this moment, I usually go flat chested.  I only ordered the RI because if I wanted one then 2007 was the year to get it, without any additional cost to me.   

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