5 Topic Commentaries

The Keratoconus Contact Lens Toolbox

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  Ashlie A. Bernhisel, M.D.

  Cornea/External Disease; Ophthalmology; Specialty Contact Lenses

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  Mayo Clinic

  “Early cases may be managed with glasses or soft contact lenses, while more irregular corneas often benefit from rigid, gas-permeable, hybrid or scleral lenses,”

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  Anisa Gire, O.D.

  Optometry; Specialty Contact Lenses (PROSE/Scleral)

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  Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine

  “You put these devices on and it's like magic.”

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  Michelle Hessen, O.D.

  Optometry; Specialty Contact Lenses (Scleral/PROSE)

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  Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine

  “They're able to go back to their daily activities and have significantly better quality of life,”

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  Karen G. DeLoss, O.D., FAAO

  Optometry; Cornea and Specialty Contact Lenses

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  University of Michigan Health

  “These are also used for conditions like keratoconus and dry eye.”

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  Kathleen Thai, OD

  Optometry; Specialty Contact Lenses

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  Harvard Medical School; Mass Eye and Ear

  “One treatment that I think is underutilized is therapeutic scleral lenses.”

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