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Postby jayuk » Tue 18 Apr 2006 1:38 pm

What is equally interesting is the re-attachement...to me thats phenominal...as we are now looking at healing times from 12-18 MONTHS months to 6 weeks!!!!!......
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Postby Sweet » Tue 18 Apr 2006 2:24 pm

WOW now that really is dam amazing!! :shock: :lol:

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Postby Andrew MacLean » Tue 18 Apr 2006 3:13 pm

I have to admit, I blinked and looked carefully at the date on which the article was posted: no, it was not April 1!
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Postby GarethB » Tue 18 Apr 2006 5:26 pm

Much of the work with glues is to make them so that is degrades and gets broken down by the body just like soluble sutures. The way soluble sutures are maded depends on how long they stay in your system.
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Postby Per » Wed 19 Apr 2006 5:28 pm

The new head surgeon at Moorfields :) :

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Postby Sweet » Wed 19 Apr 2006 5:52 pm

LMAO!!! :P :shock:

That was really funny! Thanks for that!!! :lol:

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Postby ChrisK » Sat 22 Apr 2006 10:48 pm

'It is important to remind of the fact that Italy already detains the record of cornea transplantation in terms of quantity and quality (in 2005 waiting lists for cornea transplantation were set at zero; in Italy every year there are 10,000 cornea transplantations)'

I found this part interesting too. But the robot and healing time of 6 weeks sounds fantastic. Now if only I was Italian...... BRB.... Just off to browse italianbrides....... :wink:
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Postby Per » Sun 23 Apr 2006 8:51 am

I also found it interesting that of all countries, Italy is the leading one in corneal surgegy.
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Postby K Man » Mon 24 Apr 2006 5:24 pm

JayUK, not familiar with your views but I have to say that in the 21st century we are still using a teqnique that has changed little in over 100 years, where as heart transplant surgery developed in the 1960's just keeps improving.
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Postby jayuk » Mon 24 Apr 2006 5:31 pm

K - Man

I refer you to my Michael Knight Analogy.

However, the only central place where stuff like this gets discussed is the World Corneal Conference which are held annual, predominantly in the USA.

Its here where the emmerging techniques, research, and new ideas and avenues are declared and explored......

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How many people need Heart Surgery? Now relate this to how many people that need corneal transplants.....then you may start to understand why things havent advanced as much......supply and demand, profit and loss,

and above all - Research costs Money - If I buy a house , I would expect to actually get more back for it in 5 years........along those lines, if I plough money into research I would expect to get a sizeable return.........like a vicious circle realy....but we are getting there.....and with the newer emerging Consultants who are now in there mid 30's early forties......a new vision is being adopted....

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