Job Description:

• 1) Fabricates artificial plastic eyes according to specifications and fits eyes into customer's eye sockets, using precision handtools, measuring instruments, molding devices, and bench fabricating machines: Measures customer's eye socket, using calipers, and measures natural eye to determine size and location of pupil and iris, using scale.

• 2) Records data on examination card.

• 3) Selects stock artificial eye approximating size and shape of customer's socket and inserts eye into socket.

• 4) Fills eye area and questions customer to ascertain that eye fit is comfortable.

• 5) Applies plastic as required to build up and shape stock eye to conform to customer's eye socket.

• 6) Examines customer's natural eye to determine iris coloring, eye white shading, and number of eye white veins and records information on examination card.

• 7) Selects samples of iris, pupil, and white to match eye.

• 8) Positions artificial eye stock in plaster of paris to prepare mold for casting plastic eye.

• 9) Pours plastic into mold to form artificial eye.

• 10) Measures molded eye to determine position for pupil and iris, using rule.

• 11) Positions and presses pupil and iris into place.

• 12) Immerses eye in boiling water to set plastic.

• 13) Paints iris and white of artificial eye to produce color of customer's natural eye according to information recorded on examination card.

• 14) Draws veins on white of eye, using colored pencil or scratches grooves into eye to represent veins and fills grooves with pigment.

• 15) Immerses eye in clear plastic solution to produce glassy finish.

• 16) Examines eye for irregularities in shape and removes irregularities, using dental grinding machine.

• 17) Polishes eye, using pumice and electric buffing wheel.

• 18) Fits customer with artificial eye and compares artificial eye with natural eye to ensure centering of iris and pupils and matching of colors.

• 19) May fit patients with ready-to-wear plastic eyes of standard sizes and colors.

• 20) May fabricate implants and conformers, using standard molds and grinding and polishing machines.