Alloplasty in Surgery of the Eye

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Abstract
THE use of metals and plastics as replacement for function is becoming an important and interesting development in modern surgery. For more than fifteen years, chemically inert materials have been incorporated in various forms in different tissues to perform many functions. It would not be suspected that ophthalmic surgery would be able to share to any degree in this development, mainly because of the size and delicacy of usable structures. But, on the contrary, eye surgery has been among the first to develop a very active interest in the use of alloplastic replacements.Historically, some of the oldest replacement implants . . .

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