How Do Prosthetic Eyes Transform Lives? | Knock Knock Eye

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In this episode of Knock Knock Eye, I take the fascinating dive into the world of prosthetic eyes. From explaining why prosthetic eyes aren't spherical to highlighting the artistic work of ocularists, I uncover the details behind how these prosthetics are made and fitted. Whether you want a realistic prosthetic or one that reflects your unique personality-like a bedazzled eye-this episode covers it all. Plus, learn about the different reasons why someone might need a prosthetic eye and how these amazing devices can improve lives.
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@AznJsn82091 Месяц назад

These thumbnails are getting better and better😂

@SweetpeaSweets Месяц назад

If you want to know more about guide dogs, Guide Dogs for the Blind has a campus in Boring, Or near you and I’m sure they would love for you to collaborate with them.

@OcaRebecca Месяц назад

One of the teachers at my middle school (not one that I ever had) had a prosthetic eye. I never heard what caused the need for it, but it was very much one of those things that got passed along. (Also, one of the gym teachers had played semi-professional basketball!) Guide dogs do have to be super well trained. A memory that lives rent free in my head is from senior year of college (so just over 20 years ago), sitting in my computer science class during a rather boring lecture, and the guide dog who usually laid quietly under his owner's desk just let out a big yawn. The professor joked about being boring and then kept going.

@KirkInSLO Месяц назад

I found you on Twitter when you were first getting going there, and remember fondly the days of a great group on what came to be called "med twitter." I was an EMT/Paramedic in college, and while I'm no longer in medicine, I still feel a strong connection to it and loved the banter, learning and dry humor. But when Twitter changed hands and the other guy took over, it just went down hill. Like you, I began losing enjoyment, and finally decided to leave completely last year. I really miss some folks from there, but my life is better for it. I didn't jump on any of the other new platforms, and get my fix from RU-vid and a few private Discord servers. I find I have more time to read and pursue other hobbies. It was a great place for a while, but Twitter as we knew it is dead.

@PinkThing-m5j Месяц назад

The wife makes it interesting

@nikkiewhite476 Месяц назад

The fact you have orbs to put into the eye socket then close the tissue over them is very cool. I thought that the tissue just filled in the space. I saw an e-documentery about how fake eyes are made so I knew the space was filled. Thanks doc!

@jerrimartin6947 Месяц назад

You are so right about Mondays. It can be a disaster’s.

@jemimalamb78 Месяц назад

Would love to know more about vision & hydrocephalus. Love the channel. Congratulations on finishing the week oncall. 😊

@fioridic Месяц назад

Love the Knock Knock Eye episodes. I really admire how you can talk about your work and life and thoughts in such a relaxed natural way while explaining how thing work from your perspective. And they make great CME too. Just want to point out something... You mentioned that you need to treat pre-septal cellulitis with a "strong" antibiotic - this is a bugbear of mine as a GP who had a Infectious Diseases boss as a junior doctor. I was taught to think of antibiotics in terms of narrow vs broad spectrum rather than weak and strong. It's pretty annoying to explain to patients who come in wanting a "strong one" (if they actually need antibiotics at all). What they need is the right one, which may be a narrower spectrum more targeted one rather than a broader spectrum one. Especially in our age of antibiotic resistance.

@Passionatpropagator Месяц назад

If you do an episode on retinitis pigmentosa you really should mention Andrew Leland's Country of the Blind; A Memoir at the End of Sight. Published last year, Pulitzer finalist in memoir. He's been on a bunch of podcasts too.

@daphne0123 Месяц назад

This was an exceptionally interesting episode! Question-- you often make vids about the hoops you have to jump through with insurance companies. When there is an emergency, do you just do everything you need to do and then go back to the insurance companies and beg them to cover what you did?

@TheReticentObserver Месяц назад

Paralympics question. What is a LOGmar score? The Paralympic athletes are separated into three levels based on impairment (#13 being the highest vision level and #11 being complete or almost completely blindness). They use something called a LOGmar score to do this.

@joshgurll5999 29 дней назад

You should look into contacting Pete Gustin the blind surfer/skater/voice actor!

@SAmaryllis Месяц назад

Thanks for talking through what your on-call schedule is like! I work on a software team where there are also on-call shifts, and for us, they try to let us make up the extra time spent on incidents by taking off early or starting late on following days. I guess medical folks can't do that if you have patients booked, but I can't help but think that would be pretty miserable, especially if you have something like a surgery the next day that you need to be fully awake & alert for. What happens if you get multiple calls at once? You just have to tell the second one to wait while you finish up with the first?

@TheMagnoliaWitch 29 дней назад

Ahh, Monday.... can't trust that day. 😂 But yeah, part of it is wanting to enjoy the weekend, but part of it is also that so many of us are flat broke with no insurance (THAT familiar song and dance) and the regular doctor's office isn't open on the weekend and while the ER would be open, it would also be crowded with "actual" emergencies like stab wounds or something and the thought process is very Rural Medicine of "welp, I'm not bleeding out and my eye is still in my head, I'll just get some eye drops and wait for the weekday morning to call for an appointment". (Apply as needed to every medical problem less severe than a fully broken arm or leg bone or a sucking chest wound, because $2k just to be seen by the ER isn't doable for most people.)

@realTLC 28 дней назад

Could you talk about ICL surgery? That would be amazing (-11 prescription)

@AlphaCharlie9 Месяц назад

Hey Dr. Glaucomflecken, I had a crazy experience at the eye doctor today that I'd be curious to hear your insight on. I needed to get an eye exam for my job, and the doctor had to dilate my pupils (which I had never done before). About 2-3 minutes after getting the eye drops, I started feeling sweaty like I was going to faint. I started to yell for help, and by the time people started coming into the room I had completely lost my vision, and was barely conscious for a minute or two until I started to come back to reality. The doctor said I had a vasovagal response as an allergic reaction to the eye drops. Id love to hear your insight on this and if you've ever had a patient pass out from eye drops before. Love the show, all the best.

@olddeon Месяц назад

I defs thought eye prosthetics were a glass ball shoved in the socket lol I blame Pirates of the Caribbean. Also man I dream of deleting twitter for good. But there are a handful of accounts that keep pulling me back in 🙃

@RowanJacobs Месяц назад

Congrats on deleting Twitter! Unrelated but I'd love to hear about microphthalmia/anopthalmia or coloboma sometime. Your explanations are great!

@jerrimartin6947 Месяц назад

Being on call can be just plain boring or overwhelming for you and your staff when you have to do follow up. On follow up the staff grenge when they have to move surgeries all around and adjust the appt schedule.

@jerrimartin6947 Месяц назад

So on a kid who has had retinal cancer and had their eye removed, do they have to have several implants as they grow?

@solarfrog171 Месяц назад

Why does it (sometimes) make a squeaking or cracking noise when you rub your eyes?

@jerrimartin6947 Месяц назад

I think hearing you are going to be blind is very difficult because the first thing you think of is how am I going to function thru life. When I was told this there was no one who could offer me a program to deal with the adjustment and learning how to function, I had to develop my own program.