Prosthetic Eyes for Children & Individuals
The founders of Providing Prosthetics care deeply about their cause as they both trained in Ocularistry. They know first hand the devastation that can be caused to an individual’s life when they simply cannot get the care they need to be supplied a prosthetic eye or facial device. When Alina was just a child, she was diagnosed with Retinoblastoma Cancer and had to have her left eye removed. This is the case for a fair amount of children and elderly that develop various types of Cancers, Diabetes, and eye injuries in everyday accidents leading to eye loss. Many times in the cases of small children, either a single or both parents are working full time jobs and are required to take the time off of work to be with their children during these difficult times of surgeries and hospital visits. This leaves the family struggling financially to afford the hospital bills, treatments, and to then be able to have the finances for a prosthetic device after the healing process has just begun.
Once Alina started working in the field of making prosthetic eyes, she noticed a large problem within the Health Care System. Almost half of the patients that came in to receive a prosthetic device either had no insurance coverage, their current insurance didn’t cover prosthetics as a medical “necessity”, or Medicare Allowance only covered a fraction of the cost of a prosthetic device. Many times they would see patients that had went years or sadly never with the ability or necessity of wearing a prosthetic eye. After some time the orbital socket simply grows shut, leaving the patient unable to wear a prosthesis ever again. The children that had gone unseen had eye prosthetics that no longer fit. Due to this, they would be teased in school, bullied, or ridiculed.
It was then that Providing Prosthetics was developed. Seeing just how many individuals were suffering and not being able to acquire prosthetics due to insurance and financial issues, she knew they had to act.
Providing Prosthetics aims to provide those children, individuals and the elderly with a prosthetic eye, nose, or facial piece no matter their financial hinderance.