title: The amount and time course of soft contact lens dehydration.
abstract: As soft contact lenses are worn a significant amount of water is lost due to dehydration. This water loss affects the fitting characteristics of the lens on the eye as well as its oxygen transmission properties. Lens thickness is a major factor affecting the amount and time course of lens dehydration.
mesh_terms: D003263:Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic / Q000592:standards*; D003890:Desiccation; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors