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Rehabilitation of atrophic anophthalmic cavity with orthostatic ocular prosthesis: A clinical report.

The absence of the eyeball can generate psychosocial and facial harmony changes, such as atrophy of the muscles around it. In these cases, the use of an orthostatic prosthesis with expanding function fosters distension of the tissues for subsequent rehabilitation. This technique consists of making individual ocular prostheses with gradual enlargement of size. The aim of this following clinical report was to describe the technique used in the standing prosthetic rehabilitation of a patient, 73 years old, who underwent enucleation of the right eye as a result of glaucoma. Clinical and laboratory procedures were performed such as impression, adjusting curvature of the sclera, centering the pupil area and processing in heat-cured acrylic resin three prostheses made according to the expansion of the anophthalmic cavity. At the end of treatment, there was a considerable increase of the cavity, allowing for volume replacement similar to that existing in the patient's contralateral orbit, thus generating a satisfactory facial harmony.

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