We perform the surgery with inconspicuous scars by utilizing our clinical experience and knowledge from the world's best hospitals.
Oculoplastic clinic
guarantees natural-looking results
Patients who come to our clinic has a variety of reasons and symptoms.
But they have one thing in common.
They have a sincere wish that something should be done about the current suffering.
When you get sick, it's not just your body that suffers.
In fact, when the body suffers, the mind suffers even more.
We would like to cure such hearts as well.
"I have a very clouded eye and am considering a cover prosthesis, but I have no idea which hospital would be the best place to get it done."
"I am planning to have my eye removed and replaced with a prosthetic eye, but I would like to know how much discomfort I will feel when the prosthetic eye is inserted."
"I have a prosthetic eye due to blindness and ocular atrophy in one eye, and I am quite concerned about the disproportionate appearance of my left and right eyes."
Over the past 10 years, we have performed more than 10,000 eye plastic surgeries in Japan and the United States.
I aim to provide the cutting-edge medical knowledge and experience I have gained to patients in need in Japan.
Oculofacial Clinic physicians specialize in oculoplastic and orbital surgery, a field that is very rare in the country.
Many people throughout Japan have given up on the idea that treatment is impossible. At our clinic, we use the most advanced knowledge and experience, and use anesthesia to minimize pain. If you are not sure about the treatment, please contact us for a consultation.
We perform the surgery with inconspicuous scars by utilizing our clinical experience and knowledge from the world's best hospitals.
With the exception of surgeries requiring skin excision, most surgeries are performed through incisions made through the conjunctiva (mucous membrane behind the eyelid), avoiding skin wounds as much as possible.
Since postoperative pain and swelling can be minimized, we mainly perform day surgery.
Specifically, the two main problems for people with prosthetic eyes are (1) Upper Eyelid Depression and (2) Lower Eyelid Ptosis and Inverted Eyelashes.
These are actually caused by the same cause. The cause is a lack of volume in the orbit (space around the eye).
If a person has to wear a prosthetic eye, the eye must have reduced or lost its function.
Such an eyeball has been reduced in size or, in some cases, removed, resulting in the absence of the eyeball.
When the volume of the eyeball is reduced or removed, the entire orbit is depressed, especially in the upper eyelid, and this is manifested as a concavity.
The upper eyelid is normal with no concavity.
When the volume of the eyeball is reduced or removed, the entire orbit is depressed, especially in the upper eyelid, and this is manifested as a concavity of the eyelid.
Prosthetists try to fix an upper eyelid dent by making the upper part of the prosthesis thicker to fix the upper eyelid dent or to fix a drooping eyelid. In fact, making the upper part of the prosthesis thicker increases pressure in the upward direction, but it also increases pressure in the downward direction.
In other words, the thickened prosthesis not only pushes the upper eyelid up, but also pushes the lower eyelid down as a side effect.
This causes the second condition, lower eyelid ptosis (lower eyelid drooping) and inverted eyelashes.
The conjunctiva (white eye) of the lower eyelid is pushed down by the prosthetic eye, resulting in inverted eyelashes that turn inward. This occurs because the prosthesis is enlarged to accommodate the decreased volume of the eyeball.
This happens because the prosthetic eye is enlarged to accommodate the reduced volume of the eyeball.
So, if the lower eyelid is going to be like this, how can it be addressed?
The answer is to increase the orbital volume and make the prosthesis as thin as possible.
By making the prosthesis as thin as possible, the pressure on the lower eyelid can be reduced.
But this will of course make the indentation of the upper eyelid worse.
What is needed, therefore, is to increase the orbital volume in the first place.
It is necessary to compensate for the loss or reduction of the orbital volume.
To increase the orbital volume, something must be placed in the orbit.
In some cases, a part of the patient's own body, such as fat from the groin or rib cartilage, may be inserted, but this requires a longer operation time, causes damage to the body, and has an indefinite effect.
The volume of the eyeball is about 7㏄.
However, an 18mm-diameter prosthetic eye base has a volume of 3.1㏄ and a 20mm-diameter prosthetic eye base has a volume of 4.2㏄, so if these prosthetic eye bases can be inserted, the volume of the prosthetic eye is only 2-3㏄, which is about half as thin. This means that the volume of the prosthesis can be reduced by about half.
However, there is a problem with this prosthetic eye stand. In fact, there is no approved material for the prosthetic eye stand in Japan.
Even if there is no government-approved material, it is possible for doctors to use unapproved materials at their discretion, so in the past, all medical institutions used to insert balls made of acrylic or other materials that were not approved by the government as prosthetic eye stands.
However, today, such unapproved materials are no longer available at all at larger medical institutions.
When this happens, it is the patients who are in trouble. As mentioned earlier, if the prosthetic eye stand cannot be inserted, the only option is to enlarge the prosthetic eye, and this has led to a number of patients suffering from inverted eyelashes and droopy lower eyelids.
In order to respond to these circumstances, our clinic has been importing prosthetic eye stands approved overseas for implantation in the orbit, and we have been inserting balls made of acrylic and other materials as we have in the past.
Unlike acrylic balls, the prosthetic eye implantation table used in other countries has fine holes that allow for easy attachment to the tissue of the orbit and is said to be resistant to bacterial infection.
We can provide treatment at our own expense or with insurance, so we would be happy to consult with you.
The prosthetic eye can be made thinner by inserting a prosthetic base.
The thinner the prosthetic eye, the closer to its natural shape it becomes.
Other treatments such as eyelid drooping and inverted eyelids can also be combined to reduce the difference between the normal eye and the prosthetic eye.
Pre | Left artificial eye, ocular depression |
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Post | Left Prosthetic Eyelid Encapsulation, Left Upper Eyelid Ptosis Surgery, Left Lower Eyelid Ptosis Surgery |
術前 | Left artificial eye, ocular depression |
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術後 | Left prosthetic base implantation, after left infraorbital hyaluronic acid injection |
Pre | Left anophthalmos, ocular depression |
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Post | After Left Prosthetic Table Embedding |
After the surgery, the patient is revisited about 1~2 weeks later. After that, revisit 3 months later to complete the process.
It refers to a person who makes artificial eyes, but unlike doctors, nurses, etc., it is not a national qualification.
URL | URL:http://www.atsuzawa.jp/ |
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Address | Postal Code 113-0033 2-1, Hongo 4-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo |
Phone | tel:03-3811-8577 |
URL | URL:https://gigan.co.jp/ |
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Address | Postal Code 102-0083 5-4, Kojimachi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Lions Station Plaza Hanzomon Room 108 |
Phone | tel:03-3261-8171 fax:03-3234-0710 |