Oculoplasty is the reconstruction of the eyeball, eyelids and the orbit. Under this, the following treatments will be given:
Oculoplasty is the reconstruction of the eyeball, eyelids and the orbit. Under this, the following treatments will be given:
Orbital surgeries for removal of orbital tumours, orbital fractures, orbital abscess, thyroid exophthalmos and optic canal decompression. Socket reconstruction is done for post-traumatic and inflammatory conditions.
An ocular prosthesis or artificial eye (a type of Craniofacial Prosthesis) replaces an absent natural eye following an enucleation, evisceration, or orbital exenteration. The prosthetic fits over an orbital implant and under the eyelids. Often referred to as a glass eye, the ocular prosthesis roughly takes the shape of a convex shell and is made of medical grade plastic acrylic. A few ocular prosthetics today are made of cryolite glass.
A variant of the ocular prosthesis is a very thin hard shell known as a scleral shell which can be worn over a damaged eye. Makers of ocular prosthetics are known as ocularists. An ocular prosthetic does not provide vision; this would be a visual prosthetic. Someone with an ocular prosthetic is totally blind on the affected side and has a monocular (one-sided) vision which affects depth perception.
Botulinum injection used in essential blepharospasm to relax the eyelid muscles, to reduce diplopia, to reduce the severity of corneal dryness following lagophthalmos and for cosmetic reasons.
Constant watering problems in one or both eyes related to obstruction in the tear passage can be corrected by DCR, a procedure which will create an opening from tears sack to the nasal cavity. It can be done by either a manual method or a laser method