MEDICAL AND SOCIAL AND LEGISLATIVE ISSUES OF OCULAR prosthetics IN BELARUS

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.