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Your investment in the Boston Foundation for Sight will translate directly into life-changing benefits for patients and their families. We welcome endowed, unrestricted, and named gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations in order to make our sight-restoring lenses available to all who need them. You can help by making a gift to one of the following funds .
The Perry Rosenthal Sight Restoration Fund
The Practitioner Training Fund
Wish List
- Connections with key individuals in print or broadcast media
- Digital video camera for tracking patients eye disease during the course of treatment
- Aberrometer for measuring vision distortion in a new way. This instrument can enable us to improve eyesight in some patients far beyond the level that is now possible.
The Perry Rosenthal Sight Restoration Fund
Perry Rosenthal, M.D. learned early in his medical career the heartbreak of people suffering from untreatable corneal damage and disease. As founder and director of the Contact Lens Service at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary more than 40 years ago, he was devastated when he was unable to help his very first patient, a young man whose life had been put on hold when he became blind from progressive thinning of his corneas. The patient’s eyes rejected the contact lenses that were available at the time.
Convinced that he could help many people with corneal disease like this young man, Dr. Rosenthal launched a determined search to find the lens materials that would not only correct but also restore vision for these patients. His visionary work led to a major breakthrough in 1977 when he and his research team developed a plastic that allowed oxygen to pass through the lens and enable the eye tissues to breathe. This plastic, known as The Boston Lens ®, became the standard for conventional rigid contact lenses and is used by the Foundation today in the production of the unique Boston Scleral Lens.
The unrestricted Perry Rosenthal Sight Restoration Fund will advance the Foundation’s research and development work on better lens designs that are easier to fit and can be worn by more people. The Foundation’s recent acquisition of a state-of-the-art digital lathe, financed by Bausch & Lomb, has opened the door to developing a new generation of lens designs that will further increase our success rate, reduce the complexity, time and costs of fitting our lenses, and make them available to many more people.
The Practitioner Training Fund
By training additional physicians and establishing clinics at major eye-care centers, many visually disabled patients will have access to treatment that is currently available only at two locations: the Boston Foundation for Sight in Chestnut Hill, and a clinic in Tokyo that the Foundation helped establish. There are currently many doctors at major academic eye-care centers in the U.S. and worldwide who have expressed interest in training for the fitting of the Boston Scleral Lens at our foundation.
The Practitioner Training Workshops will provide eye-care specialists with the knowledge and experience to identify appropriate patients for scleral lens wear; identify contraindications to scleral lens wear; ensure proficiency in the fitting, handling and follow-up of gas-permeable scleral lens wearers; and identify complications associated with lens wear.
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