AIM To compare the clinical effects of the modified and conventional secondary hydroxyapatite orbital implantations. METHODS A total of 40 patients who had received eye enucleation were equally randomized into the modified and conventional groups. Twenty patients were treated by conventional method. The four rectus muscles were separated, and then an orbital implant wrapped with xenogenous sc...

BACKGROUND A blow-out fracture is one of the most common facial injuries in midface trauma. Orbital wall reconstruction is extremely important because it can cause various functional and aesthetic sequelae. Although many materials are available, there are no uniformly accepted guidelines regarding material selection for orbital wall reconstruction. METHODS From January 2007 to August 2012, a ...

OBJECTIVE To assess patients' history, demographic charactertics, cause for enucleation and orbital implant trends. METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive case study of 70 patients who underwent enucleation for various reasons between January 2004 to June 2007 at Khyber Institute of Ophthalmic Medical Sciences, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar were reviewed. The patients' history, demograph...

Advances in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery continue to be made in the state of Hawaii. A new technique of dacryocystorhinostomy using the endoscope and the pulsed Holmium: YAG laser as well as a subconjunctival endoscopic assisted approach to orbital surgery for orbital decompression is described. The integrated hydroxyapatite implant replacing the enucleated eye gives excellent ...

PURPOSE This study reports on the long-term surgical outcomes after the insertion of porous Medpor orbital implants into anophthalmic sockets. METHODS A retrospective chart review of 314 eyes from 314 patients who underwent evisceration, enucleation and secondary procedures using Medpor orbital implants was completed focusing on implant-associated complications and their corrective methods as...

Computed tomography imaging unexpectedly revealed two separate orbital floors (Figure 1) thought to have formed secondary to a silicone sheet reconstruction. Both the new orbital floor (Figure 2) and the implant were removed and histopathological results revealed only chronic suppurative granulation tissue. Post-operatively the infection had resolved, however no improvement was seen regarding h...

COVER PICTURE Lando P. Wolters and F. Matthias Bickelhaupt* The cover picture illustrates the authors' quantum chemical finding that π electrons can significantly bend otherwise linear d(10)-ML2 complexes through backbonding. The foreground features a typical series of linear and nonlinear computed equilibrium geometries, while, in the background, one discerns quantitative numerical output of t...