Category: Patient Stories
How Does A Prosthetic Eye Move? An Ocularist Answers Your Questions
If you’re thinking about getting a new prosthetic eye, you’ve probably done a lot of research. Questions...
Self-Care & Prosthetic Eyes | 3 Reasons Not to Delay Getting a New Prosthetic Eye
For patients who have experienced eye loss, self-care might look like a new prosthetic eye. At Carolina Eye Prosthetics...
The Gift of Confidence
Kristen Mitchell’s prosthetic eye was a present to herself. In 2006, Kristen Mitchell, a fifth-grade teacher from...
Safe Prosthetic Eye Visits During COVID [Plus 3 Reasons Not to Delay Care]
What is safe to do now and what will just have to wait? It’s a question we all face on a frequent basis during...
4 Ways to Offer Quality Telemedicine for Older Patients with Eye Loss
While many ophthalmic and oculoplastic surgeons, ophthalmologists, ocularists, and others are offering virtual visits...
Conformers May Provide Light Perception for Some Children
Microphthalmia is a developmental disorder in which one or both eyes are abnormally small and have anatomic...
Benefits of a Scleral Shell
Accidents and eye diseases can sometimes cause an eye not to function or to become disfigured. Living with either of...
Gaining Confidence After Losing an Eye
...thoughts without fear of judgment.” Anna’s sister and fellow board-certified ocularist, Emma Boyd...
Treating Microphthalmia in Babies
Was your infant born with microphthalmia? Do you know the best procedure to treat microphthalmia? Are you searching for...
Eleanor’s Story: Her Journey with Microphthalmia
Confidence doesn’t come in a bottle. You can’t buy it. You can’t sell it. You can’t catch it or earn it....
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