A team of researchers led by Dr. Karen Carrasquillo, BostonSight’s Senior Vice President of Consultation and Professional Affairs, published a retrospective study in December in the journal Clinical Optometry. The study titled “Pediatric Scleral Lenses: 21-Year Retrospective Review” supports scleral lenses as an efficacious treatment option for this unique patient population.
Typical challenges for discontinuing lens wear in this population can include the application and removal of the lenses, however, the study found that larger-sized (diameter) lenses did not impede successful lens wear. The study reported that “scleral lenses are a therapeutic treatment option in pediatric ocular surface disease and provide statistically significant VR in both OSD and IC/refractive conditions.”
Complete authorship includes Dr. Kellen Riccobono, Dr. Jennifer Liao, Yueming Shi, Dr. Bita Asghari, Dr. Dan Brocks, Estelle Crowley, and Buddika Peiris.
The full study can be found online at https://doi.org/10.2147/OPTO.S494398.