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By André B. Sobocinski<br><div>Historian, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div><div><br></div><div>The year is 1944. At Naval Hospital Bethesda, Md., doctors are no longer able to procure glass eyes for wounded veterans. Hearing about new advances in ocular prosthetics, the hospital’s Chief of the Ear, Nose<br>and Throat Department asks researchers at the Navy Dental School to explore solutions to the glass eye shortage. Within the year, three Navy dentists and a medical illustrator devised a method for fabricating<br>acrylic eyes that forever revolutionized the field of ocular prosthetics.<br></div>
<br>Subjects: history of medicine; Navy Medicine Live blog; ophthalmology; dentistry; prosthetics; eyes</div>
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U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div>
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