A multidisciplinary approach for ocular rehabilitation following surgical treatment of retinoblastoma: One year follow-up

Abstract

Retinoblastoma is a highly malignant neoplasm. Most of the cases are usually advanced at the time of detection, requiring enucleation to salvage the child's life. Just treating the patient for cancer is not enough; the cosmetic rehabilitation of these patients is equally important and it should always be an integral part of their treatment, to help them re-integrate in the aesthetic conscious society. Rehabilitating such patients require a multidisciplinary approach involving the combined and timely efforts of an ophthalmologist, paediatric oncologist and a skilled maxillofacial prosthodontist. This paper presents a case of 3½-year-old girl who had enucleation of her right eye due to retinoblastoma along with chemotherapy and radiotherapy at the age of 3 years. The patient was recalled regularly for follow-up at 3 month intervals for ophthalmic examinations and she was rehabilitated cosmetically with customised ocular prosthesis during the various stages of her developmental growth.

Evaluation of Ocular Prosthesis Fabricated by Rapid 3-D Printing Technology

“…Measurement of socket size and space available for eye prosthesis was performed, examination the muscles of the eye and movement of eyelids, and examination the old ocular prosthesis if present and patient complain examined. (11) • An accurate impression of the patient's eye socket is obtained to prepare a suitable wax model (Fig. 1).…”

“…However, till now there is a little study are available that compared between 3D printing ocular prosthesis and conventional ocular prosthesis. [10][11][12] Therefore, this study was aimed to compare between the conventional method of ocular prosthesis fabrication and a recent method using 3D printing and face scanning technology. The null hypothesis of this study was that the difference in the patients satisfaction between the conventional ocular prosthesis and 3D ocular prosthesis would be insignificant.…”