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    Big Smile My First Ptosis Crutch!

    Is it sad that I'm excited to be doing my first ptosis crutch? I'm such an eyeglass dork. I'm familier with them and I've done a little reading up on them since I'm going to be doing one, but I was wondering if anyone had any advice on them.
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    Go easy!

    Enjoy the moment.

    Take pictures.

    Tell your friends.

    Raise a glass!

    There is something about your *FIRST* that will stick with you forever. Let it be a good memory.

    Good luck and welcome to the Ptosis Crutch Club!

    :cheers::cheers::cheers:

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    Plastic chassis:
    Take an old piece of temple, cut to lenght, sharpen one end, heat and press into chassis, Bend to shape and coat with ear-ease or dip-cote or shrink wrap.
    Metal temple, same proceedure but weld or solder to chassis.

    Practice with some scrap chassis(es) and temples before trying for the patient's frame.


    Chip

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    and this is why I LOVE working in a hospital - I get to see such interesting things all the freaking time!
    Bart Smith, continuing to be awesome since 1982 so that you don't have to.

    Love is a duet, each voice complementing each other and making them sound better than they would alone, each voice at times stepping back and letting the other shine. We've got a pretty good duet going Tina.

    On April 28th, I'll be marrying my best friend. I can't wait!

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    Quote Originally Posted by opticianbart View Post
    Is it sad that I'm excited to be doing my first ptosis crutch? I'm such an eyeglass dork. I'm familier with them and I've done a little reading up on them since I'm going to be doing one, but I was wondering if anyone had any advice on them.

    Make sure your soldering skills are up to snuff, and test your joint to make sure it won't break on the patient, use a crutch made of gold or any other inert metal to avoid allergic reactions or if using monel from a cut up frame cover it with heat shrink tubing and dull the temporal edge + drop a ball of solder on the end and file and polish it smooth to reduce the risk of the patient jabbing themselves in the eye. I have seen a few opticians solder both sides of the crutch the temporal and the nasal, I have foudn in the few instances I have done one that it's easier to adjust when you just sodelr the nasal side and adjust. Your in Laruel, MD I work in the Baltimore area and used to live in the Silver Spring area. Great to have a native on the board.

    I could even be convinced to come down and help out, maybe even buy you a drink. :cheers:
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    well I work in DC, but our lab is in Baltimore- we use the zeiss lab there. In fact I was talking to the lab people and I think i'm going to let them do the soddering because I'm pretty sure I'd set myself on fire somehow if I tried it myself....yeah I'm a pansy I'll admit it. :)
    Bart Smith, continuing to be awesome since 1982 so that you don't have to.

    Love is a duet, each voice complementing each other and making them sound better than they would alone, each voice at times stepping back and letting the other shine. We've got a pretty good duet going Tina.

    On April 28th, I'll be marrying my best friend. I can't wait!

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    Redhot Jumper Eye lid holder................

    I made quite a few of them in my lifetime, but when it was my time to use one myself I went to an opthalmic plastic surgeon who took 45 minutes to open the eyelid, fix it and I walked out the hospital being a heck more confortable than I would have been with an eyelid holder.

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    yeah, that's the best way to go if you can, this poor unfortunant is not a surgery canidate.

    also, I'd tell you all about the customer I'm attempting to deal with right now, but if I did - you too would become depressed enough to consider suicide as the honorable alternitive to thinking about it.......
    Bart Smith, continuing to be awesome since 1982 so that you don't have to.

    Love is a duet, each voice complementing each other and making them sound better than they would alone, each voice at times stepping back and letting the other shine. We've got a pretty good duet going Tina.

    On April 28th, I'll be marrying my best friend. I can't wait!

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    Chris:

    I have often made Ptosis crutches for patient's that one or more attempts at lid surgery have failed for.

    Chip

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    Quote Originally Posted by opticianbart View Post
    well i work in dc, but our lab is in baltimore- we use the zeiss lab there. In fact i was talking to the lab people and i think i'm going to let them do the soddering because i'm pretty sure i'd set myself on fire somehow if i tried it myself....yeah i'm a pansy i'll admit it. :)
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    Quote Originally Posted by HarryChiling View Post
    gw?

    BW... but then I assume that you only hit the "G" by accident :)
    Bart Smith, continuing to be awesome since 1982 so that you don't have to.

    Love is a duet, each voice complementing each other and making them sound better than they would alone, each voice at times stepping back and letting the other shine. We've got a pretty good duet going Tina.

    On April 28th, I'll be marrying my best friend. I can't wait!

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    I've made quite a few of them too. Just follow what everyone says and you will be OK. If you do send it to the lab, check it out very carefully when it comes back so that you will know how to do it next time.

    P.S. I use paper clips and shrink tubing to make them. :D

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    Quote Originally Posted by opticianbart View Post
    BW... but then I assume that you only hit the "G" by accident :)
    Isn't BW closer towards Baltimore/Anapolis?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacqui View Post
    P.S. I use paper clips and shrink tubing to make them. :D
    That is officially one of the top 10 ghettoist things I have heard on OB. :p:D
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    Quote Originally Posted by HarryChiling View Post
    That is officially one of the top 10 ghettoist things I have heard on OB. :p:D
    I learned it from an OLD OPTICIAN 40+ years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacqui View Post
    I learned it from an OLD OPTICIAN 40+ years ago.
    I seem to remember the last time the topic came up someone mentioned paper clips, ingenious I just wanted to give you a hard time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HarryChiling View Post
    Isn't BW closer towards Baltimore/Anapolis?
    Not sure to be honest, I've never been to the lab before. Although I'd love to get to spend a day in a lab learning that side of things. I like knowing how everything goes together and such.
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    Blue Jumper Just for the record, and general information..................................

    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Ryser View Post

    I made quite a few of them in my lifetime, but when it was my time to use one myself I went to an opthalmic plastic surgeon who took 45 minutes to open the eyelid, fix it and I walked out the hospital being a heck more comfortable than I would have been with an eyelid holder.


    Just for the record, and general information. I had my original ptosis fixed on my right eye, in 2007 I believe.

    Half way through 2013 they did it again, and the surgeon told me that he would do it along the eyebrow, so he could do it again on the eyelid at any later date.

    He was so right. I feel that I have to do it again, probably in the coming year, 2018 as it slowly is starting to bother me again.

    That is just for the general information, that a one time surgical ptosis correction is not always the final permanent solution.

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