Is there just a moist, round cavity left, suitable for holding spare change and small valuables?
I’ve seen false eyes, and they’re more like half-shells than big marbles. Do the ocular muscles atrophy and fill in the rear of the cavity? Does a doctor have to do anything to prepare the socket (perhaps spackle)? Is the empty socket prone to infection?
Hang on, I didn’t phrase one of my questions well. It should have read “When the doctor prepares the false eye, how does he get the sockets shape right (some king of dental spackle)?”
My grandfather had a false eye, but only wore it to dress up affairs. I really don’t think there was any real trick to prepare the eye socket. He lost his eye because of a piece of metal that flew into it.
It’s the shape of the prosthesis (not he shape of the socket) in cooperation with the eyelids that makes it stay in place.
So, Elvis went into dentistry after leaving showbiz?
ROFLMAO
Thankyou…thankyou very much… Elvis has left the building.
A coworker who has a prosthetic eye had to go in to get everything cleaned out and disinfected recently. I didn’t ask for details after that, but I do remember her telling me that hers was custom-fitted.
I spoke with an Opthalmologist a few years back about what would happen if he had to remove one of my wife’s eyes. She was having horribly high pressure (55+) in her left eye, and he had go in and remove half her cilliary bodies. She’s blind in that eye due to macular degeneration and rubosis(sp?), but he felt it prudent to try a surgical fix to the pressure problem. Anyway, what the doctor said was that he would implant a porous eyeball shaped thing, akin to bone, I think, attached to muscles and all, and that tissue would grow through this thing forming a decent replica of an eye. The visble bits would be fabricated, of course.
As it turned out, her intraocular pressure has be fine, and Timoptic is all she needs (she did use iopidine(sp?)).
A friend of mine was born with a defective eye. a little gimble device was attaced to the muscles and her fake eye is a half shell that snaps onto that. She was a school teacher, and would get the students attention by clicking her finger nail on her eyeball.
I had a friend who lost an eye in an accident and had a prosthetic one like that. The muscles were attached to a base sculpted from marine coral, and the visible eye part fit on to a peg in the base. It worked pretty good, turn right and left, but there was still something unsettling about it.