Indications of Oculoplasty Surgery

• Blocked Tear Duct: Leads to watery eyes due to drainage issues.
• Ptosis: Droopy eyelids, creating a sleepy appearance.
• Entropion and Ectropion: Inverted or everted eyelids causing irritation and watering.
• Graves’ Orbitopathy: Thyroid-related eye disease.
• Proptosis: Bulging eyeball, often caused by growths or thyroid issues.

Types of Oculoplasty Surgeries

As the name suggests, it is a range of plastic surgeries that helps to rebuild the eye and the associated areas.

• BLEPHAROPLASTY: Eye lift surgery, includes upper and lower eyelid correction.
• ECTROPION and ENTRIOPION SURGERY: Corrects inverted or everted eyelids.
• DACRYOCYSTECTOMY and DACRYOCYSTORHINOSTOMY: Surgery to repair tear duct drainage.
• EVISCERATION SURGERY:: Removal of eye contents, leaving the sclera intact, for injured or infected eyes.
• ENUCLEATION SURGERIES:Removal of the entire eye with reconstruction for cosmetic purposes.
• PTOSIS SURGERY:: Corrects droopy eyelids.
• ORBITAL SURGERY: Reshapes the eye socket and surrounding structures for cosmetic and functional improvement.

Orbit

The Orbit Clinic handles a wide range of referrals, including both common and rare orbital disorders, tumors, and infections. These conditions are managed through both conservative approaches (medical management, chemotherapy, radiation) and surgical intervention, with tissue samples sent for biopsy and histopathological analysis. The clinic also provides specialized care for patients with thyroid-related orbitopathy, in close collaboration with general physicians and endocrinologists, on a daily basis.

Lacrimal system and Orbit

Nasolacrimal duct obstructions are treated with probing, balloon dacryoplasty, and dacryocystorhinostomy procedures. The clinic also manages orbital pathologies, including trauma, with surgeries like orbitotomy, biopsy/excision, and orbital floor fracture repair. Foreign body removal is also performed.

Orbit and Oculoplasty services are available at Aravind in Madurai, Chennai, Tirunelveli, Coimbatore, and Pondicherry.

Oculoplasty

The Oculoplasty treats a variety of eyelid disorders, including ptosis, entropion, ectropion, and eyelid tumors. Surgical corrections for congenital lid anomalies, trauma, and cosmetic surgeries like blepharoplasty, as well as botulinum toxin injections for facial dystonias, are also performed.

Ocular Oncology

The Ocular Oncology clinic diagnoses and manages adult and pediatric malignancies of the eyelids, ocular surface, orbit, and globe. Chemotherapy is provided for conditions like retinoblastoma and other ocular cancers, in consultation with oncologists. The clinic serves as a referral center.

Services are available at Aravind in Madurai, Chennai, Tirunelveli, Coimbatore, and Pondicherry.

Ring of Hope

The Ring of Hope Fund provides free treatment, rehabilitation, travel, and accommodation for patients with eye cancer, helping to reduce the financial burden of treatment. It also offers custom ocular prostheses and rehabilitation services for those who have lost their sight, including prosthetic eyes and facial prostheses.

Ocular Prosthesis

The Ocular Prosthetics Centre specializes in fitting custom artificial eyes for patients who have undergone eye removal or facial surgery due to injury, tumors, or infection. It offers high-quality, lifelike prosthetic eyes and silicone facial prostheses for those with exenterated sockets.

A unique department specializing in the science, art and craft of fabricating and fitting of custom artificial eyes, or commonly called “Fake Eye”. Loss or disfigurement of an eye due to an injury, eye tumour or an infection inside the eye or a shrunken eye can be devastating and it invariably affects your aesthetic beauty. That apart, when the eye or its components are removed through surgical procedures such as Enucleation (removal of the entire eyeball) or Evisceration (removal of jelly-like portion inside the eye), it requires restoration with the fitting of a Custom Artificial Eye. It prevents the tissues in the eye socket from growing to fill the empty space. A prosthetic eye can improve the appearance of the affected eye socket. A prosthetic eye cannot restore vision.

This situation speaks volume of the necessity to know how important it is for prosthetic eye to be both beautiful and natural. Our Ocularist uses advanced art and sculpting techniques to create the most lifelike artificial eye with the most natural and wonderful appearance, ensuring world class quality.

ORBIT & OCULOPLASTY

This department focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of orbital, eyelid, and lacrimal system disorders, offering microsurgical procedures for congenital abnormalities, trauma, and cancer. It also provides ocular prosthetics for rehabilitation and aesthetic surgeries for facial enhancement.

OCULAR PROSTHETICS DEPARTMENT

A unique department specializing in the science, art and craft of fabricating and fitting of custom artificial eyes, or commonly called “Fake Eye”. Loss or disfigurement of an eye due to an injury, eye tumour or an infection inside the eye or a shrunken eye can be devastating and it invariably affects your aesthetic beauty. That apart, when the eye or its components are removed through surgical procedures such as Enucleation (removal of the entire eyeball) or Evisceration (removal of jelly-like portion inside the eye), it requires restoration with the fitting of a Custom Artificial Eye. It prevents the tissues in the eye socket from growing to fill the empty space. A prosthetic eye can improve the appearance of the affected eye socket. A prosthetic eye cannot restore vision.

This situation speaks volume of the necessity to know how important it is for prosthetic eye to be both beautiful and natural. Our Ocularist uses advanced art and sculpting techniques to create the most lifelike artificial eye with the most natural and wonderful appearance, ensuring world class quality.

Lastly, at dse Centre for Ocular Prosthetics, you can be rest assured that lifelike artificial eye is no more a teasing illusion or a promise of unreality, but a stark reality.

Oculoplastic, Orbital, and Reconstructive Surgery

For over 70 years, the Oculoplastic, Orbital, and Reconstructive Surgery Service at NYEE has been a center of excellence, treating conditions involving the eyelids, eye socket, tear duct system, and face. Procedures range from medically corrective to cosmetic and reconstructive surgeries, including for malignant tumors. Most treatments are outpatient.

The team is recognized for handling complex cases like orbital trauma and tumors, collaborating with specialists in oncology, endocrinology, and ENT at Mount Sinai. Oculoplastic surgeons, trained as ophthalmologists, possess deep knowledge of the eye and surrounding structures, making them experts in delicate eye-related plastic surgery.