Open AccessSynthetic hydroxyapatite-based integrated orbital implants: A human pilot trial
Author(s) -
Biswanath Kundu,
M. K. Sinha,
Santanu Mitra,
Debabrata Basu
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
indian journal of ophthalmology/indian journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1998-3689
pISSN - 0301-4738
DOI - 10.4103/0301-4738.18904
Subject(s) - evisceration (ophthalmology) , enucleation , cosmesis , medicine , implant , prosthesis , prosthesis implantation , surgery , eye enucleation , dentistry , biomedical engineering , alternative medicine , pathology
Orbital implants are used as fillers following enucleation or evisceration surgeries to replace the lost volume for better cosmesis and motility of the artificial eye. Over the last decade porous hydroxyapatite (HAp) implants derived from the naturally occurring corals, are increasingly used. Recently synthetic HAp-based implants have been introduced. After fibrovasculrisation they have the added advantage of being directly integrated with the artificial shell, thereby increasing the motility to a great extent. The current study, evaluated the efficacy of two different models of synthetic HAp with 75% porosity and pore sizes ranging from 100 to 300 mm.