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Why Did My Eye Reject the Gold Weight that was Implanted to Help Closure?
I had a gold weight placed in my eye to help closure. This helped but several weeks later why did my gold weight try and make its way out of my eye.. and had to be removed does this mean my body has rejected or just a post op complication
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Gold weight in eyelid
Gold is commonly used because generally the body doesn't react against it. When it extrudes, or makes its way out of the eyelid on its own, there are usually 3 reasons for this:
1) your body is rejecting the gold. If this is the case, there are alternatives to the gold. Eyelid weights can be made of platinum and this is commonly used for patients sensetive to gold. Platinum eyelid weights are more often thinner than gold and thus have less of a thickening...
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