clinical trial of artifical cornia

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clinical trial of artifical cornia

Postby grewski » Mon 20 Sep 2010 12:28 pm

hi,
Ive just joined this group, Ihave KC and I have been wearing CLs for over 20 years. I saw this news about a clinical trail of artifical cornias which i thought would be of interest to folks on here

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/26115/?a=f
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Re: clinical trial of artifical cornia

Postby Anne Klepacz » Mon 20 Sep 2010 1:42 pm

Hi Grewski and welcome to the forum!
Thanks for this - we've had several links to articles about this new development posted on this forum. It sounds exciting, though it will probably take several years until enough clinical trials have been done for this to become a standard treatment.
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