Ocular prosthesis is an artificial eye, which is implanted in patients who have lost their eye due to various causes such as trauma, surgery, cancer, or in patients with shrunken damaged eyes (phthisical eyes), congenital absence (anophthalmos) or abnormally small sized eyes (microphthalmos) with no visual potential.
These conditions result in cosmetic disfigurement of the face which impacts the patients psychologically and acts as a social stigma.
Cosmetic rehabilitation for these patients through the implantation of ocular prosthesis helps in restoring the patient’s confidence by improving their external appearance.
Ocular prosthesis are fitted behind the eyelids over a shrunken eyeball or an orbital implant placed following surgical removal of the eye.
