Patient comfort following thirty minutes of lens wear: piggy-back versus conventional rigid-lens wear
African Vision and Eye Health
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Patient comfort following thirty minutes of lens wear: piggy-back versus conventional rigid-lens wear | |
| Creator | Gillan, W. D.H. | |
| Description | Discomfort when wearing contact lenses, especially rigid contact lenses, is a common complaint amongst neophyte as well as experienced contact lens wearers. Wearing a piggy-back system of contact lenses has been shown to improve comfort and wearing time, especially in keratoconic subjects. Twenty two normal subjects wore a rigid lens or a piggy-back system of lenses for thirty minutes and after a thirty minute break swopped the mode of lens wear and wore the second modality for a thirty minute period. This study suggests that a piggy-back lens system provides improved comfort compared to wearing a rigid lens on its own. The order of lens wear might, however, influence the perceived comfort. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2014-08-03 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/aveh.v73i1.1 | |
| Source | African Vision and Eye Health; South African Optometrist: Vol 73, No 1 (2014); 3-7 2410-1516 2413-3183 | |
| Language | eng | |
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