A Comprehensive Guide to Ocular Prostheses: From Creation to Maintenance

Abstract

The human eye is one of the most significant aspects of facial aesthetics. The loss of an eye can have a negative impact on the patient's physical, social, psychological, and general outlook on life. Human eye loss can be caused by surgical treatments such as enucleation, evisceration, or exenteration, which are used to treat malignancies, congenital abnormalities, sympathetic ophthalmia, irreversible injuries, underlying infections, phthisical eye, and other conditions. There is requirement for an ocular prosthesis following surgical treatments. An ocular prosthesis can be made using a variety of materials and processes. This case study describes the creation of a semicustomized ocular prosthesis using a stock iris shell.