Repeated Contact Lens Refits a Disservice to Patients with Keratoconus

Key takeaways:

• Doctors must educate patients that early corneal cross-linking is the best chance of maintaining good vision.
• Cross-linking cannot restore best corrected vision that has already been lost.

In eyes with keratoconus, no contact lens - whether soft, gas permeable or scleral can arrest progression of the underlying disease process, even when it does achieve the goal of helping the patient see better.

How a Scleral Lens Works

Ectasia can continue to progress despite good corrected visual acuity in the contacts. 

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By Mitch Ibach, OD, FAAO.

This article first appeared in Healio.

Published by Primary Care Optometry News.