Anaplastology Conferences

THE ART OF ANAPLASTOLOGY

27^TH ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE

MAY 8-11 (2013),NASHVILLE TN

Conducting by  International Anaplastology Association

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Key note speaker

Evan Penny :He  is a world renowed Canadian contemporary sculptor .He was the key sculptor on many films,including JFK,Nixon,Truman,Legends of the full ,and X men .

Andrew Cawrse :He is a globally recognized expert anatomist .His effects work has been featured in many films, Such as Avatar ,Van Helsiing ,and star wars episode 1 & 11 .

Dr. David Kaylie :He is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Otolaryngology at Duke University Medical Center .Dr.Kaylie’s main research interests are in hearing preservation skull base surgery .He has patented a laser droppler probe that can  measure blood flow in the linear ear and nerves during surgery for the removal of skull bone tumors.

And many other well experienced anaplastologist too  

Ocularistry training

Greetings! Its pleasure to share with you about 1- year clinical fellowship program in ocularistry at the L V Prasad eye institute ,Hyderabad. Interested candidates are requested to send their curriculum vitae and complete contact information to vinnycelia@lvpei.org Interview on Monady Dec 31,2012 at LVPEI, Hyd @ 9.00 am Prerequisite :Bachelors in optometry qualifying by December 31.

Get Orbital Prosthesis

It is essential to reconstruct an exenterated orbit where the situation in which there is a total loss of upper and lower eye lid along with the eye .The treatment offered for this is an orbital prosthesis. Here u have a opportunity to have this For free orbital prosthesis contact orbitalprosthesis@gmail.com http://getorbitalprosthesis.blogspot.in/

Maxillofacial Prosthetics

Maxillofacial prosthetic rehabilitation forms an integral component of a comprehensive treatment program for patients undergoing surgical resection of head and neck cancer. The common goals of rehabilitation are restoration of speech, mastication, and swallowing, control of saliva, and restoration of facial deficits. Preoperative communication and discussion between the head and neck surgeon and the prosthodontist is crucial for optimal planning and achievement of a good functional and aesthetic outcome at various stages of treatment . The head and neck surgeon should be aware of the functional sequelae from loss of the structures being resected so that the patient's rehabilitation is planned even before the actual surgical procedure is undertaken.

artificial eye

Artificial eye for injured student


Souvik Hazra, the 19-year-old Asutosh College student who had been hit by a brick during a clash between Trinamul and CPM unions, underwent surgery at a Hyderabad hospital last week to replace his left eyeball with an artificial one.

“Souvik’s damaged eyeball has been replaced with a plastic one. He had lost vision in that eye. The surgery will save his other eye,” a doctor at

LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad

told Metro on Monday.

The 19-year-old has recovered after the surgery, which was performed on Thursday. “I am in no mood to talk to anyone. We are devastated,” said his father Bidyut, a state government employee.

The second-year English honours student was in danger of losing his right eye too because of “sympathetic ophthalmia”, a vision-threatening inflammation in one eye triggered by trauma in the other.

“There is no such threat now as the damaged eyeball has been replaced,” said the doctor.

Souvik was having tea with friends outside the main gate of the south Calcutta college on December 16 when the clash between supporters of the SFI and the Trinamul Congress Chhatra Parishad escalated into a brick-throwing competition.

The brick that struck the Behala boy caused “extensive globe rupture”.

He was taken to the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology in Calcutta Medical College and Hospital where he underwent an emergency surgery. Next morning, his father got him discharged and took him to Hyderabad.

Souvik also has a congenital problem in his right leg.

The One-Eyed Documentary Filmmaker

A documentary filmmaker will be shooting a new film with a video camera...inside his prosthetic eye! Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence wants to use a camera hidden in his eye to secretly record people for a project about the global spread of surveillance cameras. Spence's real eye was removed three years ago after being damaged in a childhood shooting accident, and now he'll use this handicap as a way to conceal a camera.

Spence said he plans to become a "human surveillance machine" to explore privacy issues and whether people are "sleepwalking into an Orwellian society." Zafer Zamboglu, staff technical product manager at OmniVision (the company that provided the camera) said he thinks that success with the eye camera will accelerate research into using the technology to restore vision to blind people. "We believe there's a good future in the prosthetic eye," he said.-Associated Press

Pretty cool, huh? I'm really interested to see Spence's final project. And speaking of sight, I was at Sunglass Hunt recently and noticed a small card by the register asking customers to takepart and support One Sight an organization that helps people around the world who suffer from poor vision but cannot afford proper eye care. I checked out One Sight and they're doing great things like providing sunglasses ( courtesy of Sunglass Hut) to field workers in Thailand.

what is a prosthetic eye ..........?

( Ocular prosthesis) An ocular prosthesis or artificial eye (a type of Craniofacial prosthesis) replaces an absent natural eye following an enucleation, evisceration, or orbital exenteration. The prosthetic fits over an orbital implant and under the eyelids. Typically known as a glass eye, the ocular prosthesis roughly takes the shape of a convex shell and is made of medical grade plastic acrylic. A few ocular prosthetics today are made of cryolite glass. A variant of the ocular prosthesis is a very thin hard shell known as a scleral shell which can be worn over a damaged eye. Makers of ocular prosthetics are known as ocularists. An ocular prosthetic does not provide vision; this would be a visual prosthetic. Someone with an ocular prosthetic is totally blind on the affected side and has monocular (one sided) vision which affects depth perception.

The earliest known evidence of the use of ocular prosthesis is that of a woman found in Shahr-I Sokhta, Iran [1] dating back to 2900-2800 BCE [2]. It has a hemispherical form and a diameter of just over 2.5&_160;cm (1&_160;inch). It consists of very light material, probably bitumen paste. The surface of the artificial eye is covered with a thin layer of gold, engraved with a central circle (representing the iris) and gold lines patterned like sun rays. On both sides of the eye are drilled tiny holes, through which a golden thread could hold the eyeball in place. Since microscopic research has shown that the eye socket showed clear imprints of the golden thread, the eyeball must have been worn during her lifetime. In addition to this, an early Hebrew text references a woman who wore an artificial eye made of gold (Yer. Ned. 41c; comp. Yer. Sanh. 13c). Roman and Egyptian priests are known to have produced artificial eyes as early as the fifth century BCE constructed from painted clay attached to cloth and worn outside the socket.[3]

The first in-socket artificial eyes were made of gold with colored enamel, later evolving into the use of glass by the Venetians in the later part of the sixteenth century. These were crude, uncomfortable, and fragile and the production methodology remained known only to Venetians until the end of the 18th century, when Paris took over as the center for artificial eye-making. But again shifted to Germany with their superior glass blowing techniques. Shortly following the introduction of the art of glass eye-making to the United States, German goods became unavailable because of WWII. As a result, the US instead made artificial eyes from acrylic plastic.[4]

Currently, modern ocular prosthetics has expanded from simply using glass into many different types of materials.[5]