Abstract
During the past six years numerous types of incompletely epithelized postenucleation implants have been developed. This was begun by Ruedemann1and was continued by Cutler2and others.3Reviews of this development have been presented.4The movement of most of these implants is practically complete and is far superior to the older glass, gold or bone ball implants, wherein the movement of the stump was transmitted to the shell by means of friction between the conjunctiva and the outer scleral shell. This union usually resulted in a great deal of slippage between the two elements, and therefore only minimal movement at best, while the movement of the partially covered im plants is transmitted directly to the overlying shell by means of a peg or as the result of use of a one piece implant. Because the psychological advantages of com plete or nearly complete motility of an
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