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Thread: The new *Drop-Ball* Fiasco

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    The new *Drop-Ball* Fiasco

    I think its high time to re-evaluate the need for the FDA to "watchdog" the public's eye-safety with this stupid law. I think it makes the USA a laughing stock of otherwise terrific products, and forces undue expense and hardship upon our industry, without a real-world analysis of the cost-benefit quotient.

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    You should have been in the scleral lens/prosthetic eye business a while back.

    Some years back the FDA in it's infinite wisdom decided that it had "never investigated" opthalmic moldite (the best impression material for making moulds of the eye/socket. This had been in use for over 50 years for sure and possibly over 100 without incident. So what does the FDA do? They remove it from the market until "the investigation was complete." Of course we immediately had a large increase in the patient load requireing this service. Our approach? Go to the dental supply and get some of least flavorfull dental impression material. Guess who got to be the guenni pig? I spend a very unhappy night with some powerfull dope to get over the pain of completely stripped epithelium.
    Now shall we go to the dye for putting dots on rigid contact lenses. We used to have dotting materials that stayed on forever unless the lens was repeatedly polished. It had also been used for over 50 years with no problems. But in comes the FDA and finds it contains the dreaded "carbon black", immediately removes this from the market. Now we have dyes that might stay on two weeks in patient use.
    Damn, it's nice to be "protected." Perhaps some day the governemt will learn: "If there is no problem, leave us the hell alone!."

    Chip

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