Università Roma Tre

1. AFTER CARE: Protocol; Comfort management.
2. SOFT CONTACT LENSES: Soft toric lenses; Silicone rubber lenses.
3. RIGID AND HYBRID CONTACT LENSES: Toric and asymmetrical corneal rigid lenses. Scleral rigid lenses. Hybrid lenses.
4. CONTACT LENSES IN THE LABORATORY: Parameters checking and quality inspection of rigid and soft contact lenses; Notes on modification of rigid contact lenses parameters.
5. HIGH TECHNOLOGY EXAMINATION OF THE EYE SURFACE: Corneal esthesiometry; Corneal pachymetry; Specular microscopy; In vivo confocal microscopy; Anterior segment tomography.
6. COMPLICATIONS INDUCED BY CONTACT LENSES WEAR: Classification; Quantification.
7. HIGH ORDER ABERRATIONS CONTROL: Induced by corneal ectasias, by refractive surgery and by keratoplasty.
8. ADVANCED APPLICATIONS: Continuous wear; Correction of presbyopia; Tinted contact lenses; Infancy; orthokeratology; Control of myopic progression: contact lenses vs to other procedures; Therapeutic use; Wear of contact lenses in conditions of environmental stress.
9. PROBLEM SOLVING: Clinica cases.

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