1Postgraduate Trainee, Department of Prosthodontics, Crown Bridge and Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O'Anusandhan (Deemed to be University)
2Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Crown Bridge and Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences
3Professor & Head, Department of Prosthodontics, Crown Bridge and Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
The kind of disfigurement caused due to loss of eye results in significant physical, psychological and social distress for which they require immediate management and functional rehabilitation. The aim of such rehabilitation is to re-establish back the patient's dignity and self-confidence. The disfigurement can be concealed to an extent to give an acceptable aesthetic appearance. This clinical case report represents the rehabilitation of an ocular defect of a 58year old patient caused due to a traumatic injury; fabrication of customized prosthesis was done by polymethylmethacrylate ocular intraorbital prosthesis.
Prosthetic rehabilitation, Ocular defect, Polymethylmethacrylate ocular intraorbital prosthesis