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Good news, all insured persons must know. You can change your 'artificial eye'

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2024-09-09 16:01:09


Good news, all insured persons must know. You can change your 'artificial eye'
to an individual today. Check the conditions and methods for receiving the service


Service recipients must be those who have lost their eyes as follows:

* Patients with congenital atrophy of the eye
* Patients with atrophy after an eyeball burst
* Patients after eyeball removal surgery
The Social Security Office will take care of the following medical expenses:

- Pre-operative assessment fee for inserting an individual artificial eye, including examination fee, artificial eye test fee, vision level measurement fee, eye examination machine fee, and artificial tears fee at the actual rate not exceeding 500 baht/time
- Artificial eye printing fee at the actual rate not exceeding 500 baht
- Service fee on the day of receiving the artificial eye at the actual rate not exceeding 600 baht
- Cost of artificial organs or medical treatment equipment Pay at the rate specified in the list and the rate of prosthetic organs or medical treatment equipment.
1. Customized eye prosthesis
Pay at the rate of 5,000 baht per side. It is a prosthetic eye cover.
- Synthetic sheet colored to imitate the cornea/iris/conjunctiva.
- The main material is Polyethylene, newly made for each individual to fit the eye socket of each patient.
- Used in patients who do not have eyes or have atrophied eyes with eye socket problems that support the prosthetic eye.
- Used to expand the size of the eye socket and eye socket. In patients with shallow slit-lamp
Note: Can be changed every 2 years when the size/shape of the eye socket changes.
2. Clear prosthetic eye (Customized conformer)
Payment rate of 1,500 baht per side, it is a prosthetic eye covering.
- Clear synthetic sheet
- Main material is Polyethylene, available in various sizes from small to large.
- Used to maintain the eye socket in patients with no eyeball or atrophied eyes while waiting for a prosthetic eye (Eye prosthesis)
- Used to expand the area of the eye socket in patients with shallow slit-lamp problems that take less than 6 months to expand.
Note: Clear prosthetic eye is made to fit each patient's eye socket to determine whether or not it needs to be expanded. Some patients may not need to expand or some patients may need to expand the eye socket about 3 times.

The hospitals participating in the project are as follows:
Metta Pracharak Hospital, Wat Rai Khing
Siriraj Hospital
Chulalongkorn Hospital
Ramathibodi Hospital
Phramongkutklao Hospital
Thammasat University Hospital
Songklanagarind Hospital
Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University
Faculty of Dentistry Chiang Mai University

Easy steps to receive services, just use your ID card, you can use your rights at participating hospitals or hospitals according to your rights.

For more information about social security, visit www.sso.go.th or call the hotline 1506, which is available 24 hours a day, every day.