Cuticles are part of the skin that sit atop your nails' growth matrix, which is the part of your nails that grows. They serve like a barrier or a protection for the nail matrix. If you look at your nail the cuticle is the thin ledge right at the base of your nail. It looks like your nail starts growing from the cuticle but it doesn't, the nail root is further … [Read more...]
Latex Dressing: Latest Fashion Trend Among Celebrities
Latex rubber is used in many types of clothing. Rubber has traditionally been used in protective clothing, including gas masks and Wellington boots. Rubber is now generally being replaced in these application by plastics. Mackintoshes have traditionally been made from rubberized cloth. Latex rubber as a clothing material is common in fetish fashion and among BDSM … [Read more...]
The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System: Sight for the Blind
For people who have gone blind from degenerative eye diseases like macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. Both diseases damage the eyes' photoreceptors, the cells at the back of the retina that perceive light patterns and pass them on to the brain in the form of nerve impulses, where the impulse patterns are then interpreted as images. The … [Read more...]
Ten Steps to Visual Longevity
As we age the lens of our eye loses flexibility, and by 50 most of us need glasses and are holding the "small print" further and further from our eyes. The lens' ability to change shape to accommodate to objects brought close to the eye is called "accommodation". Modern living exacerbates this AGE-RELATED tendency to lose accommodation. The conventional path … [Read more...]
SMILE: The Flapless Laser Eye Surgery
The technology of the lasers and also the procedure has changed and evolved over the years. The latest evolution of laser technology comes in the form of the Smile procedure, where the corneal flap is not made any more. Smile is short for Small Incision Lenticule Extraction. It is a procedure that uses only one type of laser – the Femtosecond laser for the complete … [Read more...]
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