The Medical Futurist
JUNE 17, 2025
Back in 2015, Nobel Biocare held the first dental surgery filmed through VR and allowed observers to virtually assist the whole procedure from the surgeon’s perspective. Teledentistry If you are reluctant to go to the dentist, imagine how hard it is for children, patients with special needs or the elderly in nursing homes.
The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation. Digital contact lenses sound like science fiction: the translucent layer on your eye transmitting special information about your body to an outside device. That must have been truly amazing!
GeriPal
DECEMBER 7, 2023
I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. And we have gone from 250 members at the end of 2015 to about 26,000 right now across the United States and a number of chapters that have grown.
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