Dr. Michael Kilgard

You don't have to block the eye entirely.

You can just do a drop that slightly blurs the eye by opening the pupil up.

And now the eye that was sort of behind catches up.

That is super practical, super cost-effective.

Atropine costs pennies.

It's super safe.

It's just an eye drop.

Just full disclosure, I had my own amblyopia experience as a kid.

When I was a very young person, I sat and tried Popsicle sticks.

I had lazy eyes, strabismus, and then that ended up causing me double vision and trouble reading when I was a very young child.

My eyes are now well aligned.

It was many, many – from an ophthalmologist, ophthalmology department's point of view –

This is a little bit telling too much about me, but it's mostly about my mother.

It was originally believed that only adults would go through this much therapy.

There's actually a paper written, I'm told, on me as someone who would go through this therapy and completely resolve the symptoms.

It just takes a lot of time following popsicle sticks.

I had little lenses at, I don't know, I guess I was six years old.

Put little lenses in.

It would make it harder.

It was like eye building for the eye.