title: Prosthetic management with a scleral prosthesis: an 'eye on an eye'.
abstract: Eyes are an essential organ not only in terms of vision but also being an important component of facial expression. The loss of an eye has a crippling effect on the psychology of the patient. A natural eye is surgically removed by enucleation, evisceration or exenteration because of trauma, pathology or tumor. Treatment of such rehabilitation cases includes implant-retained and acrylic eye prostheses by a maxillofacial prosthodontist to restore the patient's quality of life. For economic reasons, a removable acrylic prosthesis is preferred over an implant-retained prosthesis. Here, we describe a case of a customized acrylic scleral shell prosthesis which showed excellent retention and esthetics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Maxillofacial Prosthodontics, Bapuji Dental College and Hospital, Davangere, 577004, Karnataka, India, pavan_dent@yahoo.co.in.
authors.forename: Pavankumar R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Koralakunte
authors.forename: Nandeeshwar D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Basavapura
authors.forename: Dhanyakumar H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Budihal
mesh_terms: D000180:Acrylic Resins; D000368:Aged; D015353:Eye Enucleation / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005137:Eye, Artificial; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D012590:Sclera
chemical_list: D000180:Acrylic Resins