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On the basis of the analysis of the approaches to the organization of medical care to patients after ocular prosthetics existing in the Republic of Belarus and the study of the level of awareness of ophthalmologists about the problem of anophthalmos, organizational and clinical recommendations about delivery of health care to this category of patients have been offered. The model of the organization of such care has been developed and comprises a multidisciplinary approach and an algorithm of examination and dispensary observation of patients with anophthalmos for the ophthalmologist in out-patient conditions.

Quality of life is one of the important criteria for general welfare and health of population at the present-day stage of development of medicine [1, 2]. The article presents the issues of ocular prosthetics as one of the main stages of rehabilitation of patients with anophthalmos [3]. Ocular prosthetics makes it possible to adapt the patient to the absence of the eyeball most completely, to restore the habitual facial assimetry and rehabilitate the person in terms of public and social life.

National and foreign literature on the problem of anophthalmic syndrome and social adaptation of people with this pathology has been surveyed. The article describes bases of formation of a qualitative support-motor eyeball stump with the following achievement of cosmetic effect by means of eye prosthetics.