Probably the most frequently asked question and the main worry for patients who are coming to terms with having to have their eye removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The short answer is yes!<\/strong> Every effort is made to ensure that your artificial eye will match as closely as possible to your remaining eye. It will be individually made for you<\/em>, constructed to fit your socket<\/em>, and the colours will be specially chosen and hand-painted as closely as possible to match your remaining eye<\/em>. The short answer is yes! Every effort is made to ensure that your artificial eye will match as closely as possible to your remaining eye. It will be individually made for you, constructed to fit your socket, and the colours will be specially chosen and hand-painted as closely as possible to match your remaining eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/GreyEyes2.jpg",1520,714,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/GreyEyes2.jpg",1520,714,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/GreyEyes2.jpg",1520,714,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/GreyEyes2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/GreyEyes2-300x141.jpg",300,141,true],"large":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/GreyEyes2-1024x481.jpg",1024,481,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/GreyEyes2.jpg",1520,714,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/GreyEyes2.jpg",1520,714,false],"post_slider_thumbnail":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/GreyEyes2.jpg",1520,714,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/author\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Uncategorised<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The short answer is yes! Every effort is made to ensure that your artificial eye will match as closely as possible to your remaining eye. It will be individually made for you, constructed to fit your socket, and the colours will be specially chosen and hand-painted as closely as possible to match your remaining eye.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It is also common to think that “everyone will know I\u2019ve got an artificial eye”<\/em>, that somehow it will be obvious to everybody else. A little known fact is that there are approximately 70 thousand people in the UK with an artificial eye. It is more than likely that you will have met someone who is wearing a prosthetic eye, and you haven\u2019t known. Therefore it goes to say that it is just as likely that no-one will know that you are wearing one either.
Countless patients who attend these clinics will say that “people I\u2019ve known for years had no idea that I had an artificial eye, and it was only when I mentioned it, that they finally realised”<\/em>.
There are even stories \u2013 absolutely true \u2013 of medical specialists, opticians and such like starting to examine a person\u2019s artificial eye (with a pen-torch, for example) before being informed that it\u2019s not a real eye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"