A collaboration between Manchester Metropolitan University and Fripp Design and Research resulted in a novel way of making prosthetic eyes.
The researchers use coloured powdered and resin to make 3D-printed prosthetic eyes that can match the patient’s existing eye. The cost of each socket is US$150 dollars, reports io9, and can be ready in hours. To gain some perspective, the cost of a handmade prosthetic eye is about US$5,000 and it takes about 10 days to make one.
Dezeen Magazine reports that India has shown particular interest in the technology as a high number of patients has lost their eyes due to, in most cases, less advanced surgical procedures. "Because of the high number of relatively poor individuals in the country, they tend to simply go without," said Fripp to Dezeen. "However, our system will allow them to purchase a prosthesis."
The eyes come in small, medium and large sizes and its creators said that the technology should be ready to be implemented in 12 months.
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