An orbital defect causes severe facial asymmetry and disfigurement that result in an immense emotional trauma to the patient and is also associated with economic, esthetic, and psychological problems. A prosthetic replacement is the treatment of choice in helping individual to return to his normal life by producing an acceptable and lifelike appearance. This case report describes the critical a...

PURPOSE To describe the epidemiology of eye trauma presenting to a regional referral health service in New South Wales, Australia. METHODS A two-stage retrospective and prospective case series study was conducted. Patients who presented with eye trauma to Wagga Wagga Base Hospital (WWBH) emergency department (ED) during a one-year review period formed the retrospective case series (RCS). Pati...

purpose : the goal of this study was evaluation of the incidence rate of posttraumatic endophthalmitis, its clinical features and probable risk factors in repaired open globe injuries. methods : in this retrospective case series, surgical and medical records of 600 patients with open globe injury were reviewed. patients who underwent primary repair (as soon as possible) in khatam-al-anbia eye h...

a 65–yrs-old man referred for an ocular discomfort and red eye. the clinical diagnosis was leech in the left eye and its species confirmed as being limnatis nilotica . ocular leech infestation should be considered in patients with a history of swimming or washing their face in streams and lakes. attention should also be given to ocular leech infestation in the differential diagnosis of ocular t...

Current states of traumatic eye injury are reviewed in terms of epidemiology in the developing countries and developed countries, causes of the trauma, eye injury types, traumatic eye injury diagnostic methods and treatments. Trauma-caused vision-threatening conditions such as open global injury, traumatic optic neuropathy and proliferative vitreoretinopathy are particularly discussed. Also the...

Ocular prosthesis is artificial replacement of the eye, for patients who have lost an eye as result trauma or a carcinoma, accurate with ocular that symmetrical to natural essential. The present article describes simple laboratory method fabricating by using conventional materials fit and esthetic treatment outcome custom made technique.

Combat-related eye injuries continue to increase in frequency and are generally secondary to Improvised Explosive Devices. Many ocular injuries are potentially preventable by the wearing of ballistic eye protection. The management of penetrating eye trauma is normally outside the routine practice of maxillofacial surgeons in the UK. The aim of this paper is to describe the surgical techniques u...