Conference - NCC 2018
The
Dutch Contact Lens Congress (NCC) is a biennial meeting held in Veldhoven (The
Netherlands) where all the talks and presentations spin around the intricate
world of contact lens wear. In this edition, I was invited to be a moderator of
the scientific session about scleral lens wear. Scleral contact lenses are made
of a rigid material and are larger than the regular soft contact lenses. In the
last years, they are becoming very popular since they proved to be a successful
device for vision correction when other modalities fail. Besides moderating, I
presented a research work entitled ‘Scleral
and corneal elevation changes following short-term miniscleral contact lens
wear’ where we reported that even though these type of lenses do not
flatten significantly the cornea (the outer lens of the eye) they do flatten
the sclera (the white of the eye). This research was done as a collaboration between Antwerp University Hospital (Belgium), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland) and Aston University (UK). The methodology and the results are published in the journal Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, you can check it here.
Talk during the
session on scleral lenses