Artificial Eyes/ Ocular Prosthetics

Hollands of London

 Consultant Optician — Simply Beautiful VISION & SCIENCE

Hollands of London     3 New Cavendish Street  London  W1G 8UX    Tel / Fax: 020 74868533    email: kantifatania@hotmail.com

The Procedure for making and fitting an ocular prosthesis

The procedure involved in making an artificial eye takes time and will require multiple appointments in order to achieve the optimal results for the wearer.

 

The Bio-eye ocular implant is surgically placed within the orbit at the time the eye is removed, and the tissues are closed over the implant. 

 

A temporary conformer is then placed over the implant and under the eyelids to maintain the space for the artificial eye.

 

Six to eight weeks later, a visit is made to an prosthetist such as Kanti Fatania at Hollands if London. This highly skilled specialist will create a detailed artificial eye-often astonishing in its lifelike appearance -that exactly matches your natural eye. The artificial eye fits over the implant and under the eyelids, and will move as the implant moves or "tracks" along with the natural eye.

 

Fitting the ocular prosthesis or artificial eye begins with the prosthetist making a mould of the eye socket. This will assist in insuring that the patient will achieve maximum comfort and movement.

 

Additionally they will take measurements and comparisons to the natural eye to match up size and colour of the iris, pupil and other features in order to ensure a desirable match for the patient. The proper shape for the artificial eye is also determined and then, the next step is artistic duplication of the colour of the eye. This step is highly important in producing the final product. Once this has been done the ocular prosthesis is created using state of the art materials. The prosthetist will build up iris coloration in a way that duplicates the natural iris pigmentation and colour texture. When the color is judged to be correct, the eye is returned to the final mold and the layer of transparent acrylic is cured onto the front surface to protect the color during polishing and wearing.

 

If the finished, highly polished prosthesis is not correct in every way that we produce at Hollands of London, we will make changes until it is not possible to improve the eye any further. While this method is more time consuming than many other eye fitters, we feel that this is the way we can best produce a superior prosthesis.

 

 During this stage they will probably need to put the eye in and take it out a few times to make sure it fits properly. Finally when they are happy with the size and shape the prosthetist will polish the eye and fit it for you to wear.

 

Once your prosthetist has properly fitted the artificial eye, the full benefits of the Bio-eye ocular implant will be available to you. Of course, the final results in each case will vary depending on the condition of the orbit, muscles and surrounding tissues.

Care Tips for wearing an Ocular Prosthesis

 

 

A diagram showing the cross section of an ocular prosthesis