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Eye prostheses boost their self-confidence and enable them to lead lives normally
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National University Hospital ocularist Suriya Abu Waled checking Claire Lim's eye prosthesis at her clinic in the NUH Medical Centre last Friday. Claire, 10, was born with one eye abnormally small and dysfunctional.
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Cheerful, bubbly and with a love for the playground, 10-year-old Claire Lim is like any other child but for one difference - her left "eye" occasionally drops out.
She then takes it home to let her parents pop it back into her eye socket.
