[Materials used in orbital surgery]

Implant materials for orbital surgery are mainly used during orbital traumatic deformity-eliminating operations, postenucleation stump plasty, evisceration, and anophthalmic syndrome correction. There are currently a lot of biological and artificial implant materials, but there is no universal material to correct all types of defects and this makes surgeons use a great quantity of reparative procedures and techniques and scientists continue to search for more suitable implant materials. This paper reviews the currently available materials used in orbital surgery in Russia and foreign countries.