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

Table 4

Clinical sign scores at 24 hours after surgery in the 3 groups.

Groups	n	Limbal hyperemia (% of subjects)	Corneal oedema (% of subjects)
A	59	0.03 ± 0.16 (2.5)	0.00 ± 0.00 (0.0)
B	61	0.12 ± 0.32 (11.0)	0.03 ± 0.18 (4.9)
C	58	0.07 ± 0.24 (5.6)	0.22 ± 0.42 (14.1)
F		2.442	10.780
		0.089	0.000

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