Magnet-Retained Orbital Prosthesis Using a Dental Implant.

The loss of an eye and the associated facial disharmony has major physical, psychological, and social consequences for patients undergoing orbital exenteration. A magnet-retained prosthesis with an implant has various advantages over both adhesive and spectacle-retained prostheses for reconstruction of the exenterated orbit. The author demonstrates one representative patient with our orbital reconstruction patients with magnetic implants, which will be applied to various maxillofacial prosthesis strategies in the near future. (C) 2016 by Mutaz B. Habal, MD.

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