SOCKET RECONSTRUCTION
Diseases or trauma may result in the loss of the eye, requiring the need for eye socket reconstruction.
What is Eye Socket Reconstruction?
Broadly speaking, eye socket reconstruction is the recreation of the normal eye appearance in patients who have diseased eyes that require removal of the eye. It involves volume replacement with a spherical implant and the subsequent wear of a customized prosthesis that looks like the other eye.
Patients who have had an eye enucleated or removed may have socket related problems including:
• Sensitivity to the ocular prosthesis (false eye)
• Deep superior sulcus deformity ie the eye looks sunken above the upper eyelid
• Shallow fornices ie the groove between the lids and the deeper tissues is too shallow to support an
ocular prosthesis
• Contracted socket (a more severe deficiency of volume and surface area which makes retention of
an ocular prosthesis difficult)
Example :
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Patient with the right eye removed |