Eyeball atrophy or congenital microphthalmia can be divided into eyeball preservation and eyeball enucleation according to the degree of atrophy, intraocular lesions and conscious symptoms. And different treatment methods have different feelings, effects and costs (these situations need to be investigated before they can be decided). If the blind eye usually has no obvious symptoms such as red pain, in most cases, the cornea can be covered with conjunctiva, of course, it depends on other specific conditions. Conjunctival covering surgery can generally be hospitalized for four or five days. Only after the wound has healed three to four weeks after the operation can the artificial eye be worn. The prosthetic eye worn after conjunctival covering cornea surgery needs to be removed and cleaned. The interval of patients' removal is different according to their own situation, every day or several days.
Yan Min, Department of Ophthalmology, Beijing Aieryingzhi Eye Hospital
It is to prevent the cornea from directly contacting the artificial eye piece (covering the cornea by surgery), and to avoid the unbearable (as the saying goes, there is no sand in the eye, let alone a huge artificial eye piece) and corneal inflammation and ulcer.