4 Topic Commentaries

Chinese Trial Validates Scleral Lenses

Chinese Trial Validates Scleral Lenses

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  Laura M. Di Meglio, OD

  Optometry; Specialty Contact Lenses (scleral lenses); Ocular Surface Disease

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  Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine

  The fluid fills in the cracks between the scleral lens and the cornea, and the lens imitates the perfectly round surface of a normal cornea, masking all of those irregularities,”

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  Michelle M. Hessen, OD

  Optometry; Ocular Surface Disease and Dry Eye; PROSE device fitting

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  Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine

  People are often unable to perform activities of daily living without special scleral lenses to help support the surface of their eyes,”

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  Kathleen Thai, OD

  Optometry; Specialty Contact Lenses; Keratoconus management

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  Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology; Mass Eye and Ear

  One treatment that I think is underutilized is therapeutic scleral lenses. While scleral lenses are often known for vision rehabilitation benefits in irregular corneas, they can also be very successful in the management of the ocular surface.

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  Muriel M. Schornack, OD

  Optometry; Corneal Ectasia and Ocular Surface Disease; Scleral lens fitting

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  Mayo Clinic

  It gives them hope. It gives them vision. It gives them ocular comfort that they could only dream of prior to wearing scleral lenses.

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