Posts by Paul Geelen
Launch of Artificial Eye Stories
Stories are powerful things. They can be as helpful to the writer as they to the reader of the tale. To write down your story of eye loss means that your brain needs to move the event from the emotional experience storage area to another part of your brain that arranges words. This is why…
Read MoreUncle Johnny’s Glass Eye
People often use humor as a way of dealing with having an artificial eye. This was especially true in the past when glass eyes were clearly so different. I have just come across a beautiful story told in an animation on You Tube that demonstrates this very well. The short clip is the story of…
Read MoreEye Enucleation, Fitting of the Orbital Implant and Conformer Shell
We have recently added an article to artificialeyes.net which explains the operation to remove an eye. When someone has an eye removed the procedure is explained by the ophthalmologist. This is usually an emotional time for the patient and most of what they are told is quickly forgotten. This article uses simple diagrams to illustrate…
Read MoreImprove The Appearance of A Blind Eye
If you have a problem and you visit a surgeon, chances are you will get a surgical solution. If you visit an ocularist you will probably get an ocularist solution. An optometrist is likely to offer you a solution from their own tool kit. People tend to offer solutions from within the range of what…
Read MoreBlind Goal Shooter Matt Steven
In my work as an ocularist I’ve met a lot of blind people. It seems that disability does not limit what people are able to achieve once they set their mind to it. I was amazed to read about an American basketball goal shooter. Matt Steven liked to hang out with the school basketball team.…
Read MoreChinese Stem Cells Procedure Restores Sight
I’ve found an article about sight being restored using stem cells. In a pioneering therapy Chinese doctors implanted stem cells in a child who had been born blind with septo-optic dysplasia. The treatment repaired damage to the optic nerve allowing the child to see people and objects for the first time. There are occasions when…
Read MoreMicrophthalmia support – is there a role for you?
Ocularist Paul Geelen encourages people with life experience of Microphthalmia to participate in support groups because he believes their experience is very valuable.
Read MoreMoorfields Eye Hospital Dubai – Artificial Eye Clinic
Over the last year we’ve been developing a regular clinic at Moorfields Eye Hospital in Dubai. The hospital has an impressive history that goes back to its establishment in England two hundred years ago. It is the largest training hospital in the world. Moorfields has set up a branch now in Dubai. I am working…
Read MoreArtificial Eyes in Bali – John Fawcett Foundation
I just spent the last eight days in Bali where I trained two people in the techniques for making artificial eyes. I was invited there as a guest of the John Fawcett Foundation. John Fawcett is a West Australian who moved to Bali in 1991 and saw a need to address the preventable blindness that…
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