Custom-made ocular prosthesis

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...

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Autores principales: Gunaseelaraj, Rajkumar, Karthikeyan, Suma, Kumar, Mohan N., Balamurugan, T., Jagadeeshwaran, A. R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Dental Science - Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3467907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23066246
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.100264
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author Gunaseelaraj, Rajkumar
Karthikeyan, Suma
Kumar, Mohan N.
Balamurugan, T.
Jagadeeshwaran, A. R.
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-34679072012-10-12 Custom-made ocular prosthesis Gunaseelaraj, Rajkumar Karthikeyan, Suma Kumar, Mohan N. Balamurugan, T. Jagadeeshwaran, A. R. J Pharm Bioallied Sci Dental Science - Case Report 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3467907/ /pubmed/23066246 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.100264 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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