Prolonged wearing contact lenses and preliminary results.
Extended wear contact lenses are sure to gain approval sometime during 1979. Four such lenses are briefly described, and the author's experience with one of them is discussed. The characteristics that differentiate these lenses from daily wear lenses are the high water content and the thinness.
D001035:Aphakia / Q000534:rehabilitation; D003263:Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D011102:Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate; D011109:Polymethacrylic Acids; D011205:Povidone; D013997:Time Factors
D011109:Polymethacrylic Acids; D011102:Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate; D011205:Povidone