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KMID : 1011420090140030017
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Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
2009 Volume.14 No. 3 p.17 ~ p.27
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Fundamentals of Tight fitted Contact Lens Movement
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Kim Dae-Soo
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Abstract
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Purpose: This review article was written to determine the effects of parameters characterizing a hard contact lens (RGP included), such as BCs, diameters, edge angles, on the time interval for tight fitted lens to return to the equilibrium when it was decentered from blinking.
Methods: A mathematical formulation was established to relate or calculate the restoring forces and thickness of lacrimal layer beneath the cornea with the various lens parameters when the tight fitted lens was decentered from blinking. Based on this formulation the differential equations and their numerical solution program were set up to describe the time dependence of the lens on the position and to estimate the time for the lens’s return to the equilibrium after blink.
Results: It is found that the time interval for the tight fitted lens to return to the equilibrium decreases as either the BC decreases or the diameter increases because both the reduction in BC and increase in diameter result in the increase in the lacrimal layer thickness between the lens and cornea increase which yielded the lowering of the viscous friction in the lens motion. As the edge angle of tight fitted lens increases the time for recentering decreases due to the increase in restoring force without change in lacrimal thickness beneath the lens. In the case of flat fitted hard lens (RGP included), the lacrimal layer thickness under the lens increases as either BC or diameter increases which results in reduction in viscous friction so that the time for the lens’s return to the equilibrium were to decrease. The edge angle of flat fitted lens does not affect the lens motion.
Conclusions: The effect of BCs on the lens motion (time to approach the equilibrium) was concluded to be significant with both tight and flat fitted lens where its results are contrary with each other. The edge angle of lens only affects the motion in tight fitted lenses.
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KEYWORD
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blink, tight fit, flat fit, capillary phenomena, surface tension, damped oscillation, restoring force, viscosity, equilibrium position, edge angle
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