Tips To Enhance Scleral Contact Lenses Performance

Scleral contact lenses have shown a significant improvement in the quality of life for patients, who are sensitive to conventional rigid gas permeable contact lenses. For example, a young man, who is having keratoconus and unable to see, study or any other person with some syndrome are unable to drive or work due to the severity of ocular discomfort. Scleral contact lenses are large-diameter, approximately 14.5 mm, gas permeable lenses. They are specially designed to cover the entire corneal surface and rest on the sclera as well as to treat irregular cornea problems, caused by keratoconus and other corneal irregularities. They provide a smooth optical surface to correct vision. Scleral contact lenses can be a positive, life-changing experience for you. These few pearls will help you to better succeed with the intricacies of scleral lens fitting:

For each person cleaning and handling procedures is critical to review. But using detailed written, verbal, and demonstrated care and cleaning procedures lead to the short and long-term success of scleral contact lenses. Patients with high refractive error, rheumatoid arthritis, tremors, and dexterity hand challenges may have difficulty seeing or handling the lenses. In these cases, some additional tools such as See Green Lens Inserter or EZi Scleral Lens Applicator may be used to handle scleral contact lenses.

If your scleral contact lenses have poor surface wettability, it has the potential to decrease vision, diminish lens comfort, and increase cost for both the patients and doctors.

Patients with an ocular surface disease are at high risk of surface wettability challenges as well as exposure from cranial nerve palsy or lagophthalmos can also be risk factors for poor surface wettability. Treatment and management of the ocular surface disease are essential to improve the surface wettability.

Before handling scleral lenses, you must wash your hands with mild, basic hand soap. You should apply a face, eye cream, and makeup after lens application. You should avoid any makeup to the inside area of the eyelid margin or any oil-based moisturizers on the eyelids.

If you have conjunctiva then scleral contact lenses need time to settle down into the eyes. Prior to lens evaluation and over-refraction, the scleral lens fitting process, allow lenses over the period of 20 to 30 minutes to settle down.

You should utilize preservative-free solution in the bowl of the scleral contact lenses since the preservative-free solutions help to maintain a healthy cornea. A solution can be used to rinse lenses prior to application and rinse lens cases or lenses as needed during any time in the day. 

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