[The therapeutic contact lens--advantages and limits]. / Lentila de contact terapeutica--avantaje si limite.

INTRODUCTION: The therapeutic use is one of the major indications of the contact lenses, near the correction of the refraction. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The study analyzed 86 patients who wore one TCL. The data was analyzed concordant with the main effects of the TCL and their limits. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS: The main positive effects of the TCL were: relief of pain, improving of re-epithelization, the tectonic effect, mechanic protection and hydratation of the cornea, visual improving and the permitting of the binocularity. The limits of the TCL are related to: susceptibility of infections, non adaptation or loosing of the lens in irregularity of the cornea. CONCLUSIONS: TCL: Efficient in majority of cases; Permits the binocular vision; The complications occur rarely and are minor.

[Lagophthalmy of VII nerve palsy--therapeutical approaches]. / Posibilitati curative în lagoftalmia prin paralizia de nerv facial.

Facial nerve palsy is impairing orbicular muscle function leading to lagophthalmos. This disease impairs patients' quality of life by exposure keratopathy which is accompanied by ocular pain and deteriorate visual acuity at a variable degree. The paper's aim is to show up the place of lagophthalmos in anterior ocular segment pathology and to evidence the results obtained by us with a new therapeutical method applied in several cases. All cases with lagophthalmos have ocular complications like exposure kerato-conjunctivitis. The treatment was both conservative and surgical which consisted in majority of cases in blepharoraphy with its inconveniencies, aesthetical and functional. We have applied a new surgical method--gold weight superior lid implantation--in 4 cases and the results are promising.

[Refractive changes in concomitant exodeviations]. / Vicii de refractie în exodeviatiile concomitente.

UNLABELLED: The paper represents the analysis of 27 patients with a form of exodeviation examined în the Department of Ophthalmology Sibiu (jan. 1999-jan. 2003). METHOD: The evaluated parameters were: debut age, sensorial status, refraction, type of exodeviation related with refractive errors and treatment. RESULTS: The predominant refractive error was hyperopia (low degree)-40.74%, exophoria was the most frequent type of exodeviation (44.44%). Amblyopia was present în 11.2% of cases, 25.9% of patients had no stereopsis. CONCLUSIONS: In the studied group 81.48% of cases had refractive errors. Exophoria and intermittent exotropia were related with emetropia or minor refractive errors. Mixed astigmatism with amblyopia and anizometropia presented constant exodeviation.