General form of registration statement for all companies including face-amount certificate companies

Equity Incentive Plan (Details Textual)

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Equity Incentive Plan (Details Textual) (USD $)
3 Months Ended 12 Months Ended 0 Months Ended 1 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2010
Mar. 12, 2012
Feb. 13, 2015
Feb. 28, 2015
May 01, 2015
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Compensation Cost [Line Items]              
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Nonvested Awards, Compensation Cost Not yet Recognized $ 911,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationNonvestedAwardsTotalCompensationCostNotYetRecognized $ 5,095us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationNonvestedAwardsTotalCompensationCostNotYetRecognized          
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Nonvested Awards, Compensation Cost Not yet Recognized, Period for Recognition 3 years 7 months 17 days 1 year          
Stock Issued During Period, Shares, Period Increase (Decrease)     891,222us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesPeriodIncreaseDecrease        
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Options Outstanding And Exercisable Intrinsic Value 1,850,000eyeg_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardOptionsOutstandingAndExercisableIntrinsicValue            
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Shares Available for Grant 70,567us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardNumberOfSharesAvailableForGrant            
Three Officers And Six Employees [Member]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Compensation Cost [Line Items]              
Sale of Stock, Number of Shares Issued in Transaction       613,817us-gaap_SaleOfStockNumberOfSharesIssuedInTransaction
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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Exercisable, Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term       7 years 1 month 6 days      
Allocated Share-based Compensation Expense       $ 31,290us-gaap_AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense
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Stock Option [Member]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Compensation Cost [Line Items]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Exercisable, Weighted Average Exercise Price       $ 0.66us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardOptionsExercisableWeightedAverageExercisePrice
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Minimum [Member] | Three Officers And Six Employees [Member]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Compensation Cost [Line Items]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangements by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Exercise Price       $ 2.85us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementsByShareBasedPaymentAwardOptionsGrantsInPeriodWeightedAverageExercisePrice
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Maximum [Member] | Three Officers And Six Employees [Member]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Compensation Cost [Line Items]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangements by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Exercise Price       $ 4.06us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementsByShareBasedPaymentAwardOptionsGrantsInPeriodWeightedAverageExercisePrice
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2005 And 2014 Plan [Member]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Compensation Cost [Line Items]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Shares Available for Grant 445,771us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardNumberOfSharesAvailableForGrant
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= eyeg_And2014PlanMember
           
2014 Plan [Member]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Compensation Cost [Line Items]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Shares Available for Grant 728,597us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardNumberOfSharesAvailableForGrant
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= eyeg_TwoZeroOnePlanMember
           
Restricted Stock [Member]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Compensation Cost [Line Items]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Award Vesting Rights vest 13 % on the issuance date and 29% on each of the following June 30, 2015, September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2015            
Restricted Stock [Member] | Subsequent Event [Member]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Compensation Cost [Line Items]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Shares Available for Grant             125,412us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardNumberOfSharesAvailableForGrant
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IPO [Member]              
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Compensation Cost [Line Items]              
Stock Issued During Period, Shares, Other   60,358us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesOther
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      60,358us-gaap_StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesOther
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Sale of Stock, Number of Shares Issued in Transaction         683,250us-gaap_SaleOfStockNumberOfSharesIssuedInTransaction
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= us-gaap_IPOMember