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