Category Archives: Instruments

Using the Keratograph 5M to Build your Practice – Dr. Barry Eiden [#R040]

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In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Barry Eiden to discuss how he’s built his dry eye practice.

We focus on a particular instrument, the Keratograph 5M, an advanced corneal topographer, and how he uses it to:

  • Evaluate dry eye
  • Track disease progression
  • Educate patients

He discusses tips for building your own dry eye practice, and I ask him a tough question:

Should it be the standard of care to perform a thorough meibomian gland evaluation on all dry eye patients?

(Our thanks again to long-time ODwire.org Supporter OCULUS for sponsoring this show!)

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Alcon’s iLux Treatment for Meibomian Gland Dysfunction: First Look

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At SECO 2019, we got a first look at Alcon’s new iLux MGD treatment.

(That’s Gretchyn Bailey of Optometry Times asking all the questions & demoing the device!)

Its big calling-card is that it is substantially cheaper than alternative devices, while apparently being therapeutically equivalent.

Read all about it in this thread, and discuss with your peers.

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First Look at AB Max, the Newest Instrument to Treat Anterior Blepharitis

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I’m happy to announce the launch of a new product (and a new ODwire.org site sponsor), the AB Max!

It is the latest instrument designed to treat anterior blepharitis.

I got a first-look at the devicee at SECO, and spoke with the device’s inventor, John Choate.

The comparison with the BlephEx is natural and obvious (John was one of the designers of the original), the big differences that I could see:

1) the device has a patent-pending “pulse mode”, which is more comfortable for the patients and…

2) the cost — the device itself is billed as 1/3rd the cost, and the consumables (ie, the tips) are priced at about 50% of other devices.

They are running a SECO special including the device, tips, patient literature, an i-Chek and a cute little demodex mite toy to show to patients.

If you have any questions, post them  in this thread, or visit their web site, www.AB-Max.com, or call them at 1-800-721-8006.

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https://www.odwire.org/community/threads/ab-max-the-newest-instrument-for-treating-anterior-blepharitis.118919/

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