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146 <strong>Medical</strong> modelling<br />

test to check that the eye can rotate upwards freely). Post-operative recovery<br />

was uneventful and radiographs revealed the prosthesis to be correctly<br />

positioned (Figs. 6.27 and 6.28). At follow-up, complete return to a normal<br />

range <strong>of</strong> ocular movement was found with resolution <strong>of</strong> the diplopia and<br />

no evidence <strong>of</strong> complications.<br />

6.5.5 Conclusion<br />

We think that this technique has much to <strong>of</strong>fer both for its simplicity and<br />

for the reliability <strong>of</strong> titanium as a prosthetic material. <strong>The</strong> laboratory<br />

6.27 Plain radiograph in the anterior-posterior plane showing the<br />

position <strong>of</strong> the implant post-operatively.

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