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They can also be used for special effects and halloween costumes. or anything else you can imagine. These are lenses designed for cosmetic enhancement of a disfigured or diseased eye.

This can be anything from a lens with a mis-shapen iris to an eye without an iris, cornea, or a complete blind eye.

Prosthetic lenses are designed to make a disfugured eye appear normal. One of the major differences is that some therapeutic lenses are designed with a black opaque pupil. So a seeing eye can not see through them.

The cost difference between a cosmetic lens with a clear pupil opening and a Prosthetic lens with an opaque pupil is enough to make most gag! it doesn’t have to do with the manufacturing process. After all, a black dot is a lot easier to put on a lens than a color matrixed hazel/brown iris with all the intricises.

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Found At: (nice gifts) http://www.readinstyle.com/prosthetic.aspx