How is a prosthetic eye attached
Benefits of Prosthetic Eye
losing your eye can be traumatic it's
never a good situation but there are
options and let's talk about some of the
things and some of the benefits that a
prosthetic eye can offer you
prosthetic guys are wonderful you know
every hears about the glass eye or they
think of the wooden eye rolling down the
Pirates of the Caribbean ship well
they're not made out of wood and they're
not made out of glass anymore back in
World War two they actually switched
over to plastic there's a lot of
different varieties of prosthetic eyes
and how we fit them you know sometimes
they're very thick and they're heavy
sometimes they're thin like a shell like
a contact lens and sometimes they
actually are contact lens that's custom
painted let's talk about what some of
the surgical options before proceeding
as a prosthetic eye oftentimes there's
just I damage maybe your iris is blown
and you need to control the glare and
it's soft contact lens that's painted
custom to fit your other iris it's a
great option
now if the eye is starting to shrink its
clouding over we don't necessarily
always have to remove the eye we can fit
right over the top of it like a thick
contact lens in many ways this is much
better because the muscles are already
still attached to the eye that you have
and it can actually give a little bit
more movement than most the next stage
is an evisceration or a nucleation your
ophthalmologist will talk to you about
which one is best
there's a variety of reasons which one
is best nucleation or evisceration
depending on what's happened to your eye
was it trauma as it cancer what other
reasons or how healthy the eye is to
figure out which is best it's important
that you choose a good oculoplastic
surgeon or something that does a lot of
nucleation or surgeries to remove the
eyes it makes give us some my job to fit
a prosthetic eye it makes it a lot
easier for me now once we start fitting
a prosthetic eye is it gonna look the
same am I gonna is there gonna be
looking off towards nowhere is it going
to move well believe it or not a
prosthetic eye can actually look
extremely good you know we can't we're
not as good as what God can do he could
does a lot better than we can but we can
give you much more confidence and
oftentimes people will wonder which eye
is your prosthetic eye we'll move all
the way generally I use about mu
about 40 to 60% as you're moving left
and right and up and down but generally
when you looking straight ahead it does
a really good job
iris colors can be matched tremendously
well sometimes lid surgeries may be
needed to help match the eyelids up and
there there are some times where
especially with trauma or with cancers
that things can cause it can can lead to
damage the eyelid and the surrounding
tissues we may not be able to make it
perfect but the outcomes can be
tremendous how do we take care of them
once I have them well generally a
prosthetic eye lasts about five to seven
years you know are we am I going to get
infections with every prosthetic will
come discharged to some level or another
how do we treat that will go to your eye
doctor and we can take care of it
there's some inflammation that can be
from allergies sometimes infection but
generally we want to make sure if we're
cleaning and polishing it about every
three to six months we'll be able to
keep it in Nice shape if you're going to
be able to clean it and manage it maybe
once a week to once a month where you're
taking it out that actually can avoid a
lot of the problems but in general you
put it in leave it in and it's in there
for a week at a time to a month at a
time worst and sometimes in some cases
even more than that so you can't forget
the fact that you don't have an eye and
it's not going to be like you had had
before but it can provide a very good
means of being able to maintain that
that good appearance and then normal
appearance now if you don't get a
prosthetic eye if it's shrinking if
you're having problems and lots of pain
don't shy away from it if your doctors
are recommending remove the eye and then
using a prosthetic over the top it can
be a very good reason a very good
solution if you have questions all you
can the best thing you can do is ask and
there are solutions patience is a good
thing to have but don't don't delay your
happiness and don't delay comfort and
you know don't deal with the pain
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