Q: Do patients with their own eye need to remove the prosthetic eye piece frequently? Description:I am a female patient who was burned by lime and cement in her right eye at the age of 6. I had a corneal transplant and did not have my eye removed, and my eye was mildly atrophied before I wore the eye piece. This year, I am 26 years old, and I have been wearing a prosthetic eye piece for one year in Guangzhou, and I still have a sense of light in the affected eye. The eye socket has shrunk due to wearing the eye piece, which should be a change in the soft tissue. I also have a tendency to have a lot of discharge if I am under pressure from work and life. In my case, do I need to take off the eye patch often to clean it and do I need to take it off at night to sleep? My concern is that frequent removal will not be good for the upper and lower face of the eye and will cause sagging and laxity. But I heard from our prosthetic eye friends that if I wear the eye piece to sleep at night, it will easily accelerate the shrinkage of the eye. A: Hello! What you said is true. Wearing a prosthetic eye to sleep will increase the atrophy of the eyeball and orbital soft tissues by not allowing the eye to rest, and will also increase the possibility of inflammation on the surface of the eye; but taking off the prosthetic eye often will encourage the eyelid to sag and deform. These two contradictory issues have to be taken in the middle, depending on the appropriate practice for your situation. However, it is better to take down the prosthetic eye at night, for example, once every one or two days. You can learn from experience, as each patient wearing a prosthetic eye does things differently. Good luck!