Patent ID: 7988730
Filing Date: 2011-08-02
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An orbital implant device adapted for fitting into a patient's orbit, said orbit having a medial side, a temporal side, a posterior side, an anterior side, a superior side, and an inferior side, all with reference to the implant's position in the patient's orbit, said implant device comprising: an anterior side, a posterior side, a medial side, a temporal side, a superior side, and an inferior side, all said sides corresponding to the respective sides of the patient's orbit; a finite number of openings adapted for receiving sutures and for receiving bodily fluids and in growing tissue; and the implant having an anterior portion and a posterior portion; the implant having a quasi-spherical shape defined by a first elongation, the first elongation of the implant toward the medial side of the posterior side; the posterior portion of the implant is conically elongated off-center toward the medial side of the posterior side of the implant mimicking the natural shape of the orbit of a human eye which reduces the possibility that the anterior portion will become tilted upward or outward when implanted in the eye socket; an astigmatism toward the anterior side of the implant which is defined by a radius which is longer toward the medial and temporal sides of the implant, and which is shorter toward the superior and inferior sides of the implant which helps to provide motility for a prosthesis.