Keratoconus and Contact Lenses
Keratoconus is an eye disease that misshapes the cornea, the clear protective layer of your eye, and usually one is not born with this eye disease, but instead may suffer from it if they have been in a bad car accident for example, or if they may have suffered a trauma to their eye. This eye disease can be helped by using a Gas Permeable hard contact Lens. The rigid surface of a hard contact lens helps the patients cornea get back to its normal shape, slowly but it’ll be better for the patient in the long run. The only other way to help this eye disease is if the patient would be able to get a cornea transplant, which ophthalmologists would have to stitch on to the patients eyeball. Although, back in the nineteenth century, the only way would have been a cornea transplant, if that. If they tried to put the glass contact lenses that they had invented back then on a person who had Keratoconus, it would have probably made that persons eyeball worse than what it already was.