ORIGINAL ARTICLE Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences/ Volume 2/ Issue 38/ September 23, 2013 Page 7288 MODIFIED DUAL APPROACH FOR THE PROSECTION OF HUMAN ORBIT TO PROCURE THE ORBITAL CONTENTS Priyanka Katara 1 , Rajesh Arora 2 , Sangita Chauhan 3 HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Priyanka Katara, Rajesh Arora, Sangita Chauhan. “Modified dual approach for the prosection of human orbit to procure the orbital contents”. Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences 2013; Vol2, Issue 38, September 23; Page: 7288-7292. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Requirement of the good specimens of human eye showing all its muscles from their origin to insertion, optic nerve and ciliary ganglion has been always felt during the teaching of anatomy of human eye. AIM: To make Museum specimens of human eye showing eye ball with its muscles, nerves, vessels, ciliary ganglion and optic nerve for teaching of surgical and gross anatomy. These specimens may help in formation of better eye prosthesis used in the field of ophthalmic plastic surgeries. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Five cadavers were marked for procurement of specimens during routine dissection in dissection hall by undergraduates. Cranial vault and brain were already removed. Roof of orbit were removed by superior approach with preservation of apex with cone of muscles and optic nerve. Removal of superciliary arch with frontal approach was followed to obtain complete eye ball and other structures. Fine dissection was performed to clean the area for demonstration. Specimens were mounted by Kaiserling’s technique in glass jars. RESULT: By this method ten specimens of eye were mounted showing all muscles with their origin and insertion, their nerve supply, optic nerve, ophthalmic artery and its branch entering into optic nerve in different views of different specimens. CONCLUSION: Ten specimens were procured from five cadavers dissected routinely in dissection hall by undergraduates. These specimens are providing a very good 3- dimensional view of eye and related structures. An interactive method of teaching using prosected specimens is raising a good satisfactory level among students. KEY WORDS: prosection, museum specimens, ophthalmoplastics INTRODUCTION: Anatomy is the basic for medical education. There are various methods of teaching anatomy. Prosected specimens are one of the best modes of teachings, more interesting than a lecture in a lecture theatre 1 . Although Anatomy research and teaching has taken advantage of technology developments and is towards a more enlightened future, yet museum and prosected specimens have their own importance. Though dissection of orbit and eye provide knowledge, still study of a prosected specimen of eye before dissection can make a 3-dimensional view in mind and can lead to a better dissection. It has found that during routine dissection usually conventional superior approach for dissection of orbit is followed after removal of brain. Students try to see the different structures from this view. Because of presence of orbital fat, all contents of orbit are difficult to visualize in a single cadaver provided for dissection on one table. Whole procedure requires a lot of patience. Due to this, lack of interest for fine dissection of orbit was seen among students. At the same time, if prosected specimens of eye are used, they will develop a state of curiosity to find out the structure demonstrated in specimens.