Congenital microphthalmia or anophthalmia are the rare disease. It might relate to gene and environment. At the clinical ophthalmology, due to the lack of effective eyeball stimulation, the growth of the orbit, eyelid, and maxillofacial in the sick side of children with anophthalmia or microphthalmia would lag behind the healthy side. If the effective intervention is not taken in the period of orbital-bone growth, it could cause severe facial malformations. It would have a bad impact on the beauty for sure. These children would suffer great negative effects cause by the deformity. How to dynamically take effective measures to stimulate the orbit in the sick side and let it grow along with the healthy side has long been a concerned problem in the clinic. During the fast development period of facial bone, putting inflatable tissue expander into the orbit is a good choice for the young children. It is able to reduce the number of operations. For adults and children above five years old, the size of the tissue expander could be fixed. In the process of tissue expander usage, many problems might appear, such as infection and exposure of the tissue expander. To solve these problems, many scientists are devoted to find the new material of tissue expander and operation method. The current domestic and foreign research and treatment progresses, especially during the period of children's orbital-bone growth, and the application status of orbital implant materials are summarized.
JIN He;LIU Jing;YANG Beilei;LU Weiyuan
. General Introduction to Anophthalmia and Microphthalmia Therapies[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2012
, 30(30)
: 76
-79
.
DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2012.30.011