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Medical - Medical: Instruments | | French term or phrase: bouchon méatique à collerette droite | This entry is part of a list of products of the same kind.
All the other entries are "bouchon méatiques" it is just the product number that changes.
It appears to be a remedy used for obstructed "tear ducts" or dry eyes. |
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| | straight-shaft lacrimal/punctal plugs | Explanation:
MomMD Content: Ophthalmologists can tackle dry eye with a variety ...15 Sep 2002 ... "It is a straight-shaft plug." CIBA's TearSaver Punctal Gauging System .... Non-dissolvable Herrick Lacrimal Plugs provide long-term ...
mommd.mediwire.com/main/content.aspx?articleid=31543 - Cached
LaserMyEye: About punctal occlusionJump to Product Reference List: Punctal Plugs: Straight shaft. Small, medium, large, x-large ... Herrick Lacrimal Plugs. Silicone. Available in 0.3mm, ...
www.lasermyeye.org/patients_old/dryeye/punctalocclusion.htm... - Cached
Review of Opthamology: August 2001Lacrimedics designed its original non-dissolvable Herrick Lacrimal Plugs to be ... risk sometimes found with the straight shaft design of other plugs. ...
www.revophth.com/2001/September/feature3.htm - Cached - Similar
Physician Instruments - Lacrimedics - The Leader in Lacrimal ...Tapered shaft (27-gauge to 19-gauge) forms a tight seal at the punctum reducing ... Curved, Straight, 1590, Straight. Williams Intracanalicular Plug ...
www.lacrimedics.com/products-instruments.htm
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Note added at 9 hrs (2010-07-02 07:23:03 GMT)
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or perhaps "non-slanting collarette".
Have a look in here:
http://www.orasismedtech.com/ZOrasis Cata FCI.pdf
You will see that the collarette is positioned at a slant to the shaft of the plug.
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Note added at 9 hrs (2010-07-02 07:24:02 GMT)
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Review of Opthamology: August 2001FCI's Slim Line plugs feature non-slanted collarettes that the company recommends for superior and small posterior puncta from 0.5 and 0.6 mm. ...
www.revophth.com/2001/September/feature3.htm
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Note added at 12 hrs (2010-07-02 09:33:46 GMT)
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another site showing slanted/non-slanted collarettes
http://www.fci-ophthalmics.com/dry-eye-products |
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| Jul 5, 2010 - Changes made by SJLD: | | Edited KOG entry | Daniela Ciafardoni's old entry - "bouchon méatique à collerette droite" => "straight-shaft lacrimal/punctal plugs" |
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