It’s more likely that you’d want to have the entire thing fabricated in one piece by an ocularist. I cannot speak for other users.Īs for drilling a hole in the prosthesis, I can’t see that being a practicable option. She had a pair of them made for her a couple of years ago, and she rarely sleeps with them in place. Kaylasmom, when we met, had only one prosthesis, and she did keep it in her eye socket 24/7. My entirely speculative intuition is that it might get a bit hot, even with a low-power device. If a laser pointer were shining on the inside of your eyelid for an extended period of time (overnight), would it cause damage? The oogiest thing was I’m pretty sure these were used glass eyes. And I was surprised to find they aren’t the same size & shape as a real eyeball. They were very realistic, in many different iris shades. I casually opened it to find out what was in it… and found 5 dozen glass eyes staring back at me! I let out a shriek that was probably heard throughout the library. One day as I was sorting through some stacks of stuff I came across a brief-case like box. ![]() On a related note… I work at an ophthalmology/optometry library, and when I started this job I inherited a huge cataloging backlog of books, pamphlets, journals, objects, etc, that belong in our archive/rare book collection. I still have a couple of rejects they gave me. ![]() At the last place I worked, they made artificial eyes down the hall from me.* The parts they made, which were astonishingly realistic, with tiny red blood vessels and very detailed irises, were only the front portions of the eyeball. The problem is that I don’t think artificial eyes really are the entire eyeball.
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