lucknow a team of experts at king georges medical university kgmu on thursday claimed to have conducted indias first computerised implant for repair of eye socket of a road traffic accident patientthe team from the oral and maxillofacial department of kgmu included prof divya mehrotra as chief surgeon dr sanjay kumar dr pawan goel dr u vignesh dr jagdish dr praveen dr sneer and dr satish dhasmana was the anaesthetistthe patient a 29 year old male from agra had met with an accident was not wearing helmet during riding motor vehicle in rajasthan he first visited the nearby private hospital where he was managed for emergency treatment and got discharged soon the patient then visited aiims hospital new delhi where he was managed for his jaw fracture and discharged laterhowever after some days patient noticed double vision problem and depression in his left eye as compared to right eye for which he visited several hospital but he was not satisfied by the treatment given to him by any hospitalthen after several months he came to us and i examined him and advised for ct scan of his face said prof divya mehrotraresults of the 3d ct scan showed untreated orbital floor medial wall and superior wall fracture and malunion we then planned treatment of orbital fracture by orbital reconstruction with customized orbital plate then using computer designing normal right eye socket was mirrored and superimposed on defective left side eye socket and defect was highlighted through computer based designing a virtual implant was designed for the left eye socket to correct the increased size this implant was then printed in titanium metal in 3d she explainedreconstruction of the defect was planned and done on computer and by using this designing customized orbital implant the patients s orbital walls were reconstructed and orbital volume regainedit is the first time in india that such an implant has been planned completely in the computerised format and the patient is now satisfied happy and able to see clearly from his eyes it is only because of the computer technology that gavr precise anatomical shape to the face even after malunion of fractured facial bones a result which would not have been possible with arbitrary manual planning said prof mehrotra