Mager and Gougelman, Inc. specializes in custom fitting and fabricating:

• Scleral Cover Shells
• Impression Fitted Ocular Prostheses
• Custom Ocular Prostheses
• Surgical Conformers
• Expansion Conformers
• Prostheses for Congenital Anomalies

Mager and Gougelman, Inc. is a family owned business founded in 1851. Today it has become more and more difficult to find small family owned businesses which combine their heart and soul into the services they provide. There are numerous large conglomerates with employees “performing their job only.” These employees have no stake in the companies they work for and, therefore may not go that extra mile. Mager and Gougelman, Inc. prides itself with the fact that the fourth generation is now hard at work and maintaining the same pride, service, and care which has kept the family and company a leader in the field of ocularistry for over 150 years.

When our company was founded by Peter Gougelmann, glass was the material used in making artificial eyes. During World War II, plastic was implemented into eye prosthetics and became more widely used than glass in the fabrication of ocular prostheses over the following decades. Since the first plastic artificial eyes were developed, we have devoted our efforts to provide an eye that gives the wearer all of the advantages of glass eye techniques plus all the advantages of plastic. We feel that we can now offer a plastic artificial eye superior to any.

We shall continue to work in cooperation with surgeons and the medical field to develop implants and artificial eyes which have every possible advantage in comfort, cosmetic appearance, motility, and durability. We currently specialize in the following:

Scleral Cover Shells – A flush fitting opaque acrylic scleral cover fitted over a phthisical or eviscerated globe. Iris, pupil, scleral tint, and vascular pattern are hand duplicated in detail to match the fellow eye.

Impression Fitted Ocular Prostheses – A technique of making a custom prosthesis based upon an alginate impression of the globe and/or socket.

Custom Ocular Prostheses – An ocular prosthesis fitted and fabricated to match all of the specific details of an individual patient 's natural globe, utilizing fitting and fabricating techniques. Iris, pupil, scleral tone, and vascular pattern must match the fellow eye.

Surgical Conformers – A plastic shell/shape used to prevent collapse or closing of a cavity, vessel, or opening during surgical repair, and/or post-operative healing.

Expansion Conformers – A series of therapeutic conformers to help enlarge the contracted socket or malformed socket. Expansion conformers are custom fitted at the office visit based on the individual case.

Prostheses for Congenital Anomalies –

• Congenital Anophthalmos: A true absence of the eyeball existing at birth. The prostheses that are fabricated for these cases are usually a series of progressively larger therapeutic conformers to help expand the patients socket and bony orbit as growth occurs.
• Congenital Microphthalmos: An abnormally small, blind eyeball existing at birth. The prostheses that are fabricated for these cases are usually a series of progressively larger therapeutic conformers to help expand the patient’s socket and bony orbit as growth occurs
  

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