The Power of a Prosthesis | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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MC presented to the clinic with his fiancé. His vision was R NLP and L 6/6.

Examination revealed complete corneal scarring of the right eye (Figure 2).

MC was fit with a prosthetic soft contact lens (Figure 3). Being of Cambodian descent, he had dark coloured irises, and the Capricornia Eyecon Prosthetics in jet black provided an excellent match (Figure 4). MC expressed his gratitude for improving his cosmesis and restoring his self confidence. His fiancé, unable to stop beaming, said that he was “handsome before, but now he was even more handsome”.

Figure 1

Measles is highly contagious and has been one of the leading causes of death in children. It is estimated that approximately one per cent of children hospitalised with complicated measles subsequently become blind, however this does not take into account loss of vision in one eye.1

Although there is no known effective anti-vi...