title: [Preliminary study about therapeutical contact lenses use].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The goal of the paper is to emphasize the advantages of the application of therapeutical contact lenses as compared to the eye patch.
  
  
  METHODS
  There have been taken into study 42 patients-43 eyes, to whom we applied therapeutical contact lenses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the studied cases there have been taken into discussion the type of corneal diseases, the treatment prescribed, the period of time that the lenses have been worn and the possible complications. There have been prevailed herpetic keratopathies (12 cases), edemato-bullous keratopathies--aphakic and pseudophakic (12 cases), followed by recurrent corneal erosions (4 cases), full thickness corneal and corneoscleral lacerations (4 cases) and alkali chemical corneo-conjunctival burns of II-nd/III-rd degree and III-rd degree.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  1. The wearing of therapeutical contact lens determined the improvement of the pain, of the eye discomfort and the corneal epithelium healing. 2. A therapeutical alternative clearly superior to the occlusive eye patch, the therapeutical contact lens limits the indications of tarsorrhaphy and conjunctival flap. 3. The therapeutical contact lens find their usefulness in a tectonic aim until the final surgical solution.
authors.affiliation: Facultatea de Medicina Victor Papilian, Sibiu.
authors.forename: Adriana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stănilă
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mihai
authors.forename: Ana Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Săceleanu
authors.forename: Corina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tudor
authors.forename: Claudiu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Matei
mesh_terms: D003261:Contact Lenses; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome