[The therapeutic contact lens--advantages and limits].
BACKGROUND
The therapeutic use is one of the major indications of the contact lenses, near the correction of the refraction.


METHODS
The study analyzed 86 patients who wore one TCL. The data was analyzed concordant with the main effects of the TCL and their limits.


CONCLUSIONS
The main positive effects of the TCL were: relief of pain, improving of re-epithelization, the tectonic effect, mechanic protection and hydratation of the cornea, visual improving and the permitting of the binocularity. The limits of the TCL are related to: susceptibility of infections, non adaptation or loosing of the lens in irregularity of the cornea.


CONCLUSIONS
TCL: Efficient in majority of cases; Permits the binocular vision; The complications occur rarely and are minor.
Stanila
Adriana
A
Facultatea de Medicina Victor Papilian, SIbiu.
Mihai
Elena
E
Saceleanu
Anamaria
A
Teodoru
A
A
D003261:Contact Lenses / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000145:classification; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome