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Fitting a comfortable and cosmetically attractive prosthetic device is a challenge, one which many people in the ophthalmic field seem to hesitate to undertake. Based on my experience, I provide practical guidelines for this important task. Artificial eyes which are required after enucleation are not discussed, but contact lenses and shells for disfigured blind or seeing eyes are.
Many hereditary congenital and infectious ocular conditions affecting young infants and children if diagnosed early enough are no longer untreatable. Special contact lenses are now available and have been specifically developed to prevent blindness, amblyopia and establish binocular vision. Different types of contact lenses and materials from which they may be fashioned are discussed and clinical considerations outlined for treatment. Visual rehabilitation of a high order is possible with proper understanding of the particular problems affecting babies at birth, later and in early infancy.
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The importance of early management of sight in a baby with Hallermann-Streiff-Francois syndrome is described. Surgery for bilateral cataract was performed. Special postcataract contact lenses were fitted.