Magnets! Magnets! Magnets! 🧲 ( R&D )

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Rosco brought this up in another thread, and I thought it deserved to be here.

Any of you approached cosmetic surgeons for "serious" stuff?

This experimental implant case report may be of interest. It describes a set of magnetic implants affixed to ocular muscles and orbital walls, to “lock down” the gaze of a patient with nystagmus - for lack of a better ultra-short description. The interesting bits are the construction of the magnets themselves, and their attachment to the muscles: Implant Design We designed a 2-part rare-earth magnetic implant consisting of a small cylindrical ocular part designed to be sutured to an extraocul…

Basically rare earth magnets in a laser welded titanium “can”.