Studies find that rigid gas permeable contact lens wearers exert more eye blinking attempts and demonstrate fewer complete eye blinks and more incomplete eye blinks compared with lens wearers with minimal staining and non-lens wearers. Contact lens fit and corneal coverage may influence these incomplete eye blinks.
Eef van der Worp, BSc, FAAO, and colleagues evaluated variations in frequency and completeness of eye blinks during a 5-minute period among 30 rigid gas permeable contact lens wearers experiencing 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock corneal fluorescein staining. They compared results with variations observed in 25 RGP lens wearers with less than grade 1 corneal staining and 26 controls who were not lens wearers.
The study was published Optometry and Vision Science.
Source: OSN Super Site
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