The author had a clinical experience with B. & L. Soflens in a total of 18 patients(28 eyes) from Sept. 1973-tb March 1974.
Among the patients,14 used Softens for an optical purpose ( myopia and aphakia) and 4 patients for a therapeutical purpose.
Most of these cases had worn hard contact lenses without success, as severe foreign body sensation, lacrimation and eye pain developed. With Softens the foreign body sensation proved to be so mild, that most of the patients were able to wear Softens for 14 hours per day.
Also most of these cases wearing Softens got the same good vision as with hard contact lenses. All of the patients who wore Soflens for the therapeutical purpose, that is the patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome, exposure keratitis or essential corneal edema, showed good results.
Other advantages of Softens are: it is less movable on the cornea than hard contact lenses, it also does not come off easily. It gives stable vision for the drawn-up pupil after cataract surgery.
Within 6 months of observation Soflens caused no damage to the cornea or other complications except in one case, where a temporary peripheral corneal erosion was noted.
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