Deposit Build-Up on Prosthetic Eyes and a Three-Phase Model of Prosthetic Eye Wear

Abstract

How patients might best care for their anophthalmic socket and maintain their prostheses in optimal condition is based upon an understanding of the anophthalmic socket's response to prosthetic eye wear. Knowing the nature of tear protein deposits that interface between the prosthesis and the conjunctival lining of the socket is as important a part of this understanding as knowing how the micro-environment of the socket might change during long periods of continuous wear.