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'Extremely realistic-looking prosthetic eyes can now be 3D-printed in a
fraction of the time it would normally take to produce the eyes by hand,
scientists demonstrate in a new study.
This 3D-printing technology could be used to help create realistic prosthetic
eyes for the 8 million people worldwide who need at least one, either due to a
birth defect that causes an eye to be small or missing or because they've lost
an eye.
The new technology can create a prosthetic eye in just 90 minutes, compared
with the eight hours it would normally take a skilled technician, or ocularist,
to produce one by hand. The 3D-printed eyes require five times less labor to
make than traditional methods, the scientists behind the technology wrote in a
new paper published Tuesday (Feb. 27) in the journal
Nature Communications.
The 3D-printed eyes also look more natural than traditional prostheses; this
could help improve a patient's self-confidence in using the devices.
"Patients are very conscious about wearing a prosthesis, and they don't want
others to notice," Johann Reinhard, lead study author and a researcher at the
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research in Germany, told
Live
Science. "With these more realistic eyes, it might help them to participate
more in society," he said.
So far, this approach has been used to create prosthetic eyes for more than 200
adult patients at the Moorfields Eye Hospital (MEH) in London, including 10
people who were described in detail in the new study, Reinhard said.'
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