Clinical Observation of Silicon Hydrogel Contact Lens Fitted Immediately after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE)

Table 1

Participants’ baseline demographics.

Group	n	Age	Gender	Spherical power (D)	Cylindrical power (D)	Ablation depth (μm)
			Females (%)
A	59	27.17 ± 5.91	38 (62.3)	5.15 ± 1.77	0.94 ± 0.58	114.98 ± 23.27
B	60	26.98 ± 5.91	36 (60.0)	4.94 ± 1.54	0.87 ± 0.67	112.55 ± 25.48
C	59	27.23 ± 6.05	39 (66.1)	5.45 ± 1.80	0.96 ± 0.77	116.88 ± 25.74
F/χ^2		0.026	0.545	2.419	0.474	0.767
		0.974	0.761	0.091	0.623	0.465

(Mean ± SD, N = 178). Group A: wore BCLs for 8 hours, group B: wore BCLs for 24 hours, and group C: no BCL wear.