Is continuous wear the only way to go?
2002; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 85; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1444-0938.2002.tb03024.x
ISSN1444-0938
Autores Tópico(s)Corneal surgery and disorders
ResumoCornea and Contact Lens Research Unit (CCLRU), School of Optometry and Vision Science, and Cooperative Research Centre for Eye Research and Technology (CRCERT), The University of New South Wales Forty years ago, Otto Wichterle, then Monty Ruben, John DeCarle, Phillip Cordrey, David Clulow and Klaus Nilsson dreamed of and then experimented with, a ‘permanent’ contact lens solution to refractive error, ‘continuous wear’. Three times in the past 30 years, ex- tended wear has been inappropriately released for public consumption. Dur- ing this 30 years, we at the CCLRU and CRCERT, and in the past decade in col- laboration with colleagues at the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad in India and the Centre for Contact Lens Research in Canada (CCLR) , have been researching ways
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