Human bites of the eyelid

Five patients with traumatic colobomas of the eyelid secondary to human bites were surgically repaired with retrieved autogenous tissue. All patients were treated with prophylactic intravenous antibiotics. Surgical repair consisted of debridement of the autograft, meticulous layered closure of the autograft to the wound, and placement of a lid margin suture. In two of the patients, mild upper eyelid retraction was noted, and two patients had loss of cilia.