The current process of producing custom prosthetic eyes is time-consuming and requires highly skilled workers to hand-customize each prosthetic eye for each patient. A newly published biotechnology research paper in Springer Nature's academic journal "Nature Communications" stated that researchers have developed a faster and less expensive method.
The printing time for a single prostheticEye was about 90 minutes, and it took about 10 hours to print 100 prosthetic Eyes simultaneously. These artificial eyes are being tested in an ongoing clinical trial at Murphy Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which will focus on the long-term performance and impact.