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Ostomy Product Information
From firm to flexible through to soft, we have convex products to suit different stomas, abdomens, and lifestyles whether you are recovering at home, or using the products as part of your everyday life.
Choosing the right product is very important and the right type of convexity provides the comfort and reassurance you need to help you live a normal life.
What is Convexity?
Convexity is the outward curving of the baseplate or skin barrier.1,2 The wafer curves outwards towards the skin.3 Different convexities manage the irregularities of a stoma.4 and apply a uniform pressure to the immediate peristomal skin, improving the projection of the stoma for drainage.5
Convexity also helps maintain a secure seal between the pouch and the skin, therefore simplifying stoma management for users and enhancing quality of life.6
When to Use Convexity
Different from a flat skin barrier, which lies flat against the skin, a convex skin barrier may be used for management of difficult stomas, including:
The One-Piece Convex System
The Esteem®+ portfolio offers a range of one-piece convex products with various depths to help provide comfort, freedom, security and reassurance to your patient, all designed for different stoma shapes and sizes.
Esteem®+ Flex Convex
The preferred convexity for skin folds or creases and flush, protruding and retracted stomas.
Designed with confidence and security in mind with a choice of innovative features. Flexible convexity fits and moves with the contours of the body for comfort and easy positioning.
Includes strong, skin-friendly adhesives in a cut-to-fit option. Available in a choice of drainable and urostomy pouches.
The Esteem+ Flex Convex system is available in 4 plateau widths to accommodate a range of stomas.
Key Benefits of Esteem®+ Flex Convex
Moves with you: Flexible convexity fits to body contours for comfort and easy positioning.
Designed for skin health and security: Hydrocolloid skin barrier is made to stay firmly in place, helping to minimize leakage. Soft tapered edges also help resist snagging on clothing.
Comfort and discretion: Soft quiet fabric.
Trust and reassurance: Advanced filter on closed and drainable options helps minimize odours and ballooning, while the anti-reflux valve on our urostomy pouches helps prevent back flow.
Peace of mind: Split-fabric, easy-view window for accurate positioning and observation.
Simple secure fastening: The Safe Seal clipless closure on drainable options helps make cleaning and emptying easy.
Support and security: Soft flexible belt loops available for added security.
Esteem®+ Soft Convex
The preferred convexity for firm or toned abdomens and flush or protruding stomas.
Soft convexity designed with a shallow profile, which minimizes pressure.
Conforms well to the body and is comfortable to wear. Includes strong, skin-friendly adhesives in cut-to-fit, drainable and urostomy pouch options.
The Esteem+ Soft Convex system is available in 3 plateau widths to accommodate a range of stomas.
Key Benefits of Esteem®+ Soft Convex
Comfort and flexibility: Three convexity plateau widths provide the amount of pressure required in the peristomal area to help both improve the seal and help minimize leaks.
Peace of mind: Split fabric, easy-view window for accurate positioning and observation.
Trust and reassurance: The filter on the drainable pouch helps minimize odours and ballooning.
Simple and secure fastening: The Safe Seal clipless closure on drainable options helps make cleaning and emptying easy.
Support and security: Integral soft flexible belt loops provide added security.
Esteem®+ Drainable Pouch
The all-in-one solution designed to help manage irregular stomas and abdomens to help reduce leakage and simplify stoma management.
Firm, pre-cut convex skin barrier with a convex wafer depth of 5 mm, Durahesive® Technology, which adheres to skin and protects it from breakdown, a filter with an anti-clogging film layer, and InvisiClose® clipless tail closure with a strong hook-on-hook fastener.
The Two-Piece Convex System
Two-piece systems include a skin barrier and a separate pouch that securely join together. There are two brands that make up the ConvaTec Two-Piece Ostomy Systems: Natura®+ and Esteem synergy®.
Frequently Asked Questions on Convexity
How do I know if convexity is right for me?
Contact the me+ team today to request an ostomy system evaluation and product samples.
What range of convexity products are available?
ConvaTec offers a choice of Soft, Flexible, and Firm convexity products to suit different stomas, abdomens. and lifestyles.
What is meant by plateau?
A narrow plateau width is used to create pressure directly around the stoma and a wider plateau is used to help flatten out skin creases away from the stoma.
I experience leakage from my ostomy system, can convexity help?
Our extensive range of convexity solutions are curved to fit your body and help give you a secure seal around your stoma, to help prevent leakage.
Do Esteem+ Flex & Soft Convex products contain latex?
No, these products do not contain latex.7
Do Esteem+ Flex & Soft Convex products contain gelatin?
No. these products do not contain gelatin.7
What makes Esteem+ Soft Convex "soft"?
It is the height of the wafer at 4mm (that minimizes pressure on the skin), and also the rigidity of the ring, that minimizes pressure on the skin, to help make it soft.
Think convexity might be right for you?
You may want to consider using a convex wafer if:
- You are experiencing leakage.
- Your stoma sits at or below skin level.
- You have skin folds, creases, or a soft abdomen.
Contact the me+™ team today at 1-800-465-6302 to speak with one of our product specialists or nurses.
1 B. S. Rolstad, « Principles and techniques in the use of convexity », Ostomy Wound Manage, 1996, 42(1), 24-32.
2 V. Pontieri-Lewis, « Basics of ostomy care », Medsurg Nurs, 2006, 15(4),199-202.
3 Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society, Convex Pouching Systems: A Best Practice Document for Clinicians, Mount Laurel, NJ, Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society, 2007.
4 B. S. Rolstad, « Principles and techniques in the use of convexity », Hollister Inc., article présenté 38e congrès annuel de la WOCN Society, mise à jour 2006.
5 J. Hanley, « Convex stoma appliances: are we getting it right? », British Journal of Nursing (Stoma Supplement), 2013, 22 (16).
6 E. Cronin, « A guide to the appropriate use of convex stoma care products », Gastrointestinal nursing, 2008, 6 (2), 12-16.
7 Data on file ConvaTec 2019.