Scleral CL Wearers Should Take Breaks

"Patients wearing scleral contact lenses who took short breaks every 4 to 5 hours of wearing time had a significantly higher success rate among all diagnosis groups evaluated, according to Ortenberg and colleagues in a study published in Eye & Contact Lens," reports Healio. "The researchers conducted a retrospective review of 105 eyes of patients with keratoconus, 28 eyes of patients with postpenetrating keratoplasty (PK) and 22 eyes with multiple diagnoses, including postradial keratotomy, keratoglobus, pellucid marginal degeneration, PK with aphakia and iatrogenic ectasia, according to the study." Read more.