Small discrete particles or plugs seen between contact lens and corneal surface, composed mainly of mucin, tear proteins and lipids. Mucin balls are round and vary in size and clarity. Smaller mucin balls are generally 10-20µm in diameter and typically transparent. Larger mucin balls, 20-50µm in diameter, tend to appear opalescent. These ‘deposits’ may be either scattered or clumped. They do not move as the lens moves, so they seem to be trapped against the corneal surface. Lens removal and/or subsequent blinking causes them to be dislodged leaving an indentation in the corneal surface which resolves rapidly.
Issues
- A Review of Ocular Surface Immunology
- Corneal Ectatic Disorders
- The role of biometry in myopia management
- In-Office Procedures for Dry Eye
- Multifocal Contact Lenses
- Artificial Tears: An Update
- Myopia: New Evidence and Best Practices
- Neuropathic Pain
- Specialty Rigid Lenses
- Contact lens compliance
- Pandemic update
- Digital Devices and Dry Eye: A Growing Issue
- The long and short of axial length
- Using BCLA CLEAR with your patients
- Helping your patients through allergy season
- Getting the measure of meibomian glands
- 2020: An extraordinary year
- Scleral lens update
- A dose of myopia
- New news since TFOS DEWS II
- COVID-19 Special Edition
- Material considerations
- Putting dry eye theory into practice
- Getting started with Ortho-K
- Infiltrates – an update
- Staining
- Myopia matters: Summarising the IMI reports
- Lids and contact lenses
- Myths
- Revisiting patient compliance
- Contact Lenses & Kids
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Digital eye strain
- New Dry Eye Technology
- Update on Presbyopia
- Taking stock of dry eye disease: DEWS II
- Scleral Lenses
- Pain and Sensation
- Lab measurements in clinical practice
- Control of pediatric myopia
- Nutrition
- Rethinking contact lens deposits
- Extended wear
- Daily Disposables
- Eyelash Mites (Demodex)
- Outsmarting bacteria with new technology
- Youth and contact lenses
- Sports Vision
- Ocular effects of UV radiation from the sun
- Eyelid Conditions
- Makeup: Impact on ocular health
- Myopia Control – Update 2014
- The Growing Prevalence of Myopia
- Cosmetic contact lenses
- Contact lens discomfort – The essentials
- Technology and contact lens research
- It's A Question of Comfort
- Contact lens materials
- Let's talk about SICS
- Conjunctival Controversies
- Kids & Contact Lenses
- One-day silicone hydrogel lenses
- Solutions
- Spotlight on Scleral lenses
- Drug delivery via contact lenses
- Ocular allergies
- Reducing lens case contamination
- Dry eye and meibomium gland dysfunction
- Myopia Control
- Presbyopia
- Compliance and non-compliance
- Lens care
- Celebrating 50 years of contact lenses