Ocularist Kerala

Consultant Ocularist & Artificial Eye Specialist in Kerala

Celia Vinny V

Authentic Prosthetics

authenticprosthetics@gmail.com 

WhatsApp:9249450467

Ocularist India

Celia Vinny V

Authentic Prosthetics

authenticprosthetics@gmail.com 

WhatsApp:9249450467

Anaplastology Training Program in John Hopkins

Clinical anaplastology TRAINING PROGRAM

The Anaplastology Clinic offers a training program for individuals interested in gaining educational and clinical training exposure in the field of clinical anaplastology. Clinical anaplastology is defined by the Board for Certification in Clinical Anaplastology (BCCA) as the art and science of providing custom made facial, ocular, and non-weight bearing somatic prostheses. For more information on prosthetic rehabilitation, click here.

The clinical anaplastologist is a non-physician health care professional that provides care based on a physician's referral and clinical assessment to support, modify, replace, protect or restore an anatomical structure. The clinical anaplastologist collaborates with physicians and patients to provide services such as: treatment planning, custom prosthetics, surgical guides, and custom implants. Training is provided in these areas, as well as in the areas of: clinical assessment, treatment planning, implementation of treatment plan, device delivery, patient education, follow up care, and ethical & professional standards.

The curriculum of the Johns Hopkins Training Program in Clinical Anaplastology is based on validated research conducted on behalf of the BCCA that establishes competencies required for the provision of safe and effective clinical anaplastology care to patients. Upon successful completion, trainees are provided a Certificate from the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/medart/ProstheticsTraining.htm

Facial Prosthesis------ Lectures and Workshops

DETAILS

You have been reading his book, now you can hear him live!! Coming to India for the first time.

 Mr. Keith Thomas - The living legend in extra oral prosthetics.

 A 4-day conference with Didactic Presentations and Hands-On Exercises. 

Anaplastology Unlimited covers the entire range of facial and somato prostheses. 

Book your tickets Now !!

https://in.explara.com/e/enhance-head-neck-rehabilitation-presents-anaplastology-unlimited

Microphthalmia

Microphthalmia also referred to as microphthalmos, nanophthalmia or nanophthalmos, is a developmental disorder of the eye that literally means small eye (micros = small; ophthalmos = eye). One (Unilateral Microphthalmia) or both (Bilateral Microphthalmia) eyes may be  involved.

The presence of a small eye within the orbit can be a normal incidental finding but in most cases it is abnormal and results in blindness. The incidence is 14 per 100,000 and the condition affects 3-11% of blind children.

Microphthalmia in newborns is sometimes associated with fetal alcohol syndrome or infections during pregnancy, particularly herpes simplex virus, rubella and cytomegalovirus (CMV), but the evidence is inconclusive. Genetic causes of microphthalmia include chromosomal abnormalities (trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome), Triploid Syndrome, and Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome) or monogenetic Mendelian disorders. The latter may be autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive or X linked. Genes that have been implicated in microphthamia include many transcription and regulatory factors.

How these genes result in the eye disorder is unknown but it has been postulated that interference with the process of eye growth after birth may be involved in contrast to anophthalmia (absence of eyeball) which originates much earlier during foetal development. SOX2 has been implicated in a substantial number (10-15%) of cases and in many other cases failure to develop the ocular lens often results in microphthamia. Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) located on chromosome 14q32 is associated with one form of isolated microphthalmia (MCOP1. In mammals the failure of expression of the transcription factor, MITF (microphthalmia-associated transcription factor), in the pigmented retina prevents this structure from fully differentiating. This in turn causes a malformation of the choroid fissure of the eye, resulting in the drainage of vitreous humor fluid. Without this fluid, the eye fails to enlarge, thus the name microphthalmia.The gene encoding the microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) is a member of the basic helix-loop-helix-leucine zipper (bHLH-ZIP) family. Waardenburg syndrome type 2 (WS type 2) in humans is also a type of microphthalmia syndrome. Mutations in MITF gene are thought to be responsible for this syndrome. The human MITF gene is homologous to the mouse MITF gene (aka mouse mi or microphthalmia gene); mouse with mutations in this gene are hypopigmented in their fur. The identification of the genetics of WS type 2 owes a lot to observations of phenotypes of MITF mutant mice.

Anophthalmia

Anophthalmia is a medical term that is used to describe the absence of the globe and ocular (eye) tissue from the orbit.  The terms Anophthalmia and Microphthalmia(A/M) (small eyes) are often used interchangeably since CT scans or MRI show some remnants of either the globe or surrounding tissue in most cases. Anophthalmia/Microphthalmia (A/M) may affect one eye with the other eye being normal, or both eyes, resulting in blindness.

Ocularists in India

• New Delhi-Sachin Gupta
• Chennai -Mr.Ezakial D.
• Kanpur, India – S.D.Kashyap
• Chinmaya Ocular prosthetics, New Delhi
• Amritsar(punjab)-Pavan Kumar
• India – Nusrat Changal
• Hyderabad, India – Raju Kumar
• Celia Vinny-L V Prasad Eye Institute
• New Delhi-Kuldeep Raizada
• punjab-shishupal singh ( Ocularist )
• Hyderabad India -Deepa Raizada Ocularist
• Hyderabad, India – Kuldeep Raizada
• Punjab-Jalandhar-Subhash Agarwal

IAA Conference Update: Learn about Color Matching

Learn about Color Matching and More in Nashville

The 27^th Annual Educational Conference is only three weeks away. The program has something for everyone. We are excited to announce the participation of many top-notch presenters. Our many thanks to all of them!

Saturday Workshops
Join your colleagues at the hands-on workshops on Saturday, May 11. Have you ever wanted to know how to evaluate your abilities at color matching? How accurately you discern color and how could you improve on this? Paul Tanner has spent years researching ways to create the illusion of human skin and hone his coloring techniques all with science.  Paul will be on hand to work with you and show you tests you can take to find how accurately you discern color.  This is invaluable knowledge for you to have to help you expand your abilities as a medical artist.

Pre-Conference Course
Participants will have the opportunity to meet and interact with Professor Anders Tjellström of Goteborg, Sweden, an internationally recognized expert in the rehabilitation of craniofacial prosthetic patients through the use of osseointegrated implants. As the keynote speaker, he will share his many years of experience through lectures and demonstration of the latest surgical techniques. Due to the extensive hands-on experiences this course is offering, registration is limited to the first 30 participants. Take advantage of this unique opportunity by securing a space now!!
Participate in multiple hands-on experiences! Determine the surgical location and the actual placement of the latest Vistafix implant components for a nasal, orbital and auricular bone anchored prosthesis through the use of simulated models, pig skulls, and/or bone fragments.

Awards Banquet
Remember to sign up for the Denim and Diamonds Awards Banquet when registering for the conference. This event, which requires a separate tickets, will be a full evening of entertainment. Our southern-style dinner, awards ceremony, and live Nashville bluegrass music will take place in a beautiful historic private venue that was built in 1889 and renovated in 2010. Play a game of Cornhole, challenge Lady Luck with Poker and Roulette or get an old-timey picture taken during this memorable evening of fun with old friends and new.

Walter Spohn Educational Fund OTOART Raffle: Call for Donations
The WSEF is excited to host another OTOART raffle at the awards banquet!  We ask all attendees at the Nashville conference to bring a donation for the raffle. Bring along a fun and unique item (or items!) that represent your neck of the woods and then watch all your colleagues fight over it!  We have some extraordinary donations lined up and we can’t wait to share them with you. The WSEF will also be unveiling a very special OTOART ear with a Nashville twist!

Click here for more information:
http://www.anaplastology.org/nashville-2013

 

Come and join your colleagues in Nashville to

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