Open AccessCustom-made ocular prosthesis
Author(s) -
Rajkumar Gunaseelaraj,
S. Karthikeyan,
Mohan Kumar,
T Balamurugan,
A. R. Jagadeeshwaran
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy and bioallied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-4879
pISSN - 0975-7406
DOI - 10.4103/0975-7406.100264
Subject(s) - ocular prosthesis , prosthesis , visual prosthesis , iris (biosensor) , medicine , optometry , retinal prosthesis , ophthalmology , computer science , surgery , computer vision , retinal , biometrics
An ocular defect may affect a patient psychologically. An ocular prosthesis is given to uplift the patient psychologically and improve the confidence. Ocular prosthesis can be custom made or a stock shell. To improve the comfort and matching of the prosthesis with that of the adjacent natural eye an custom made ocular prosthesis is preferred. Different techniques are available to fabricate a custom ocular prosthesis, here we have used paper iris disk technique.