Laser Therapy

Perhaps the most talked about treatment of eye diseases in recent times is Laser, so much so that, for a lay person, it is the treatment for every eye ailment in ophthalmic sciences. Laser, beyond doubt, is useful in the following eye diseases: Getting rid of spectacle glasses or contact lenses. There is a slogan [...]

Complications Associated with Myopia

There are four ocular complications which are the direct consequences of myopia, usually present in high myopias only. They are: (a) Cataract (lens sclerosis) (-15%). (b) Lazy eye or squint correction with myopia of birth (amblyopia) (-10%). (c) Detachment of retina (-12%). (d) Vitreous hemorrhaged and floaters. The incidence of these complications is not more [...]

Contact Lenses as the Treatment of Myopia

Contact lenses become the only way of treatment in myopia in the following cases: 1. When there is disparity of spectacle power correction between the two eyes, i.e. if the difference of power between the two eyes exceeds -3, ordinary spectacle glasses cannot work. If they are worn the wearer sees double (diplopic). Contact lenses [...]

Role of Contact Lenses in Myopia

The use of contact lenses and the rapid advances in the technology of their manufacture during the last decade has undoubtedly contributed to treatment of myopic. The wearing of contact lens corrects myopia just as spectacles’ glass. It goes a step further in providing natural visual field and, above all, stops the myopia from increasing [...]

Common Problems with Contact Lenses

Contact lenses are accepted all over the world as an efficient and comfortable visual aid. They are suitable alternative to wearing spectacle glasses not only on cosmetic grounds but also in certain clinical conditions which have been discussed earlier. However, contact lenses can create irritation. Inflammation and infections if not carefully preserved and looked after. [...]

Care and Hygiene of Contact Lenses

It is common belief and fear among people that contact lenses produce infections and irritation and hence should not be used. This is far from the truth. The inflammation or infection is not from the contact lens but, by and large, from the lack of hygiene and care of contact lens.

Soft Contact Lenses

The use of soft plastic for the manufacture of contact lenses was first suggested by Professor Ottowichterle in Czechoslovakia in 1960. Together with D. Lim, a chemist, and M. Dreifus, an ophthalmologist, some lenses were produced and fitted and a report was given in the Czech literature. Subsequent, Bausch and Lomb Optical Co. of the [...]

Keratinous

Keratinous or conical cornea is an uncommon bilateral thinning of the central cornea. It may be a developmental anomaly or a combination of developmental aberration and degeneration. Characteristically, one eye begins to show the changes around puberty and the other eye in due course of time or in the early 40s. In its incipient stage, [...]

Contact Lenses

Leonardo da Vinci is thought to have first conceived the idea of what is known as contact lenses, but Sir John EW. Herschel, the royal astronomer, is usually credited with the honor of being the first to recommend its use. Thomas Young discovered astigmatism. Those connected with further advancement in the field of lenses were [...]