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Delivering anesthesia via contact lenses
Eye drops are so 1.0. Not only can they be messy and inconvenient to apply, they deliver medicine to treat dryness and other issues in imprecise volumes so quickly that they need to be reapplied every few hours.
And for those applying eye drops after laser eye surgery--when the eyes are especially tender--they can be a real pain.
Which is why researchers at the University of Florida are working to design contact lenses already helpful in protecting the eyes post-surgery that can extend the release time of anesthesia to help with this post-surgery pain.
The trick, chemist Anuj Chauhan … Read more
