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The patient presents to the office with small bits of metal in the eye. The medical assistant should immediately

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After checking your vision, Once they find the foreign body, they gently remove it after numbing the eye with anaesthetic eye drops. If it’s central or deep, they will arrange for you to see an ophthalmologist (specialist eye doctor) to have it removed.
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