European School of Scleral Lenses
Provisional Program – Subject to changes
Advanced Course
Day 1
Morning Session - Lecture (3 hours)
- Scleral lens in keratoconus: peculiarity
- Scleral lens in ocular surface diseases: peculiarity, lens abnormalities, and poor wettability
- Factors affecting comfort and vision
Scleral lens in:
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
- Back surface design:
- Toric periphery
- Quadrant specific design
- Pentacam CSP and Wave software
- EPP
- Oblate design
- Front surface
- Front surface toricity
- Front surface eccentricity
- HOAs correction
- Customization procedure with Eye Surface Profiler (EagletEye), Pentacam CSP, EyePrintPro (EPP)
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH
Afternoon Session - Hands-on (3 hours)
Participants will be divided into different groups
- OCT use in the scleral lens application process
- Use of Pentacam CSP for lens customization
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
Day 2
Morning Session - Lecture (3 hours)
- Oxygen and scleral lenses
- Intraocular pressure and scleral lenses
- Midday fogging update
- Complications & management
- Excessive clearance
- Corneal touch
- Air bubbles
- Conjunctival prolapse
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
- Limbal touch & limbal congestion
- Conjunctival compression & indentation
- Lens edge lifting off
- Tight-fitting & lens adhesion
- Lens decentration & flexure
- Deposits & Poor wettability
- Corneal & conjunctival staining
- Conjunctival redness
- Microbial keratitis
- Neovascularization
- Fenestrated scleral lenses
- Channels
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH
Afternoon Session - Hands-on (3 hours)
Participants will be divided into different groups
- Scleral lens application and recognition of fitting issues
- Use of Pentacam CSP for lens customization
- EPP taking molds of the eye
- Manual modifications (notches, fenestrations, etc...)