Contact Lens Safety for the Correction of Refractive Error in Healthy Eyes

Michelle K Rhee1, Deborah S Jacobs, Deepinder K Dhaliwal

  • 1Department of Ophthalmology (M.K.R.), New York, NY, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, NY; Department of Ophthalmology (D.S.J.), Boston, MA, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA; Department of Ophthalmology (D.K.D.), Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Ophthalmology (L.S.-F.), Cleveland, OH, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; Department of Ophthalmology (C.R.P.), New York, NY, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY, NY; Department of Ophthalmology (V.J.), Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Ophthalmology (T.L.S.), Cleveland, OH, Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Division of Ophthalmology, Cleveland, OH; Department of Ophthalmology (B.H.K.), Huffman and Huffman, Lexington, KY, Lexington, KY; and Department of Ophthalmology (B.H.J.), Baltimore, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

Eye & Contact Lens
|October 25, 2022
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