[The formation of a bulk mobile locomotor stump with carbon implants]

Carbonic composite materials, syntactical carbonic foam, and carbonic felt (carbotextim), were used to form a solid mobile locomotor stump after experimental and clinical enucleation and during delayed stump plasty. Experiments with 96 rabbits demonstrated good results of using carbonic composites for lamellar ophthalmic surgery. Clinical follow-up of 86 patients demonstrated the advantages of carbonic implants vs. the traditional ones. Carbonic implants meet all the requirements to materials used in plastic ophthalmo-surgery: they are porous, easily intergrown with adjacent tissues, do not migrate, retain their shape and volume, are not denuded or rejected, easily sterilized. These properties recommend carbonic implants in intricate cases with marked inflammations of the adjacent tissues and in combination with transplantation of free mucosal grafts. The material structure permits modelling individual transplants during surgery.