Scleral thickness reductions in patients with keratoconus suggest that the disorder's pathogenesis is not limited to the cornea.

Wearing spherical SCLs can cause patients to squint, decentering the lens to a specific area, usually the quadrant in which the lens does not align properly with the sclera(10). To deepen our ...

Keeping your eyes healthy is essential for your well-being, and there are exercises you can do to strengthen your eyes, including the sclera. The sclera, or the white of the eye, provides strength ...

When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong went to hospital with an enlarged prostate, doctors were startled to see that his skin – and even the whites of his eyes – had turned silver-gray. A deeper ...

While this has minimal impact on the final outcome, I’ve found the PMMA haptics easier to embed in the sclera and try to avoid large flanges with PVDF haptics that have a tendency to sit on the ...

Medically reviewed by Johnstone M. Kim, MD Red eyes are caused when blood vessels in the sclera (white part of the eye) swell or burst. This may cause redness in part or all of the eye and result in ...