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Throughout human history, the removal of an offending or disfigured eye has been well documented. In fact, it is thought that a rudimentary version of an enucleation was one of the earliest ocular surgeries performed by mankind. Of course, with the removal of an eye comes the natural desire to replace what was lost, whether for functional, cosmetic, or psychological reasons. Although the ocular implant as we know it was not conceived until 1885, any number of materials have been historically implanted in anophthalmic sockets in attempts to do so, including wool, clay, sponge, rubber, paraffin, ivory, cork, cartilage, fat, bone, and metals such as gold, silver, platinum, aluminum, or vitallium [1,2]. The earliest documented cases of ocular implants come from ancient Egyptian civilizations. Mummies have been excavated with artificial eyes found in the sockets made of precious metals, gemstones, and obsidian (Fig. 5.1) [3]. These artificial eyes are thought to have been implanted after death as a decorative means to allow the soul of the owner to see and navigate its way into the afterlife; there was little indication that intraorbital implants were routinely inserted into the sockets

Author

Kelly H. Yom; Audrey C. Ko

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030297541

Subjects

Medical, Medicine