The author had a clinical experience with Bausch & Lomb Soflens in a total of 171 patients (271 eyes) from April 1974 to October 1975.
Among all of the patients, 163 have used Soflens for an optical purpose (myopia and aphakia) and 8 for a therapeutic purpose.
32 patients (64 eyes) had worn hard contact lenses without success, as severe foreign body serration, lacrimation and eye pain developed.
But in the patients with Solfens, the foreign body sensation proved to be so mild, that most of the patients were able to wear Soflens for 14 hours per day.
Also most of these cases wearing Soflens for the therapeutic purpose, the patients bullous keratopathy, corneal erosions, fillamentary keratitis, exposure keratitis, essential corneal edema or Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and showed good results.
Other advantage of Soflens are: it is less moval on the cornea than hard contact lenses, it also does not come off easily. It gives stable vision for the drwan-up pupil after cataract surgery.
After Soflens wearing, a corneal damage or other complications has not showed except in 8 cases, where a ocular discomfort was noted.
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