Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 5-15 , March 2006

What the patient wore, and why …

  • T. Bowden

      Affiliations

    • Tim Bowden is a contact lens optician in Kent, a visiting contact lens lecturer in the Centre for Applied Optics at City and Islington College London, a special subject advisor to the Contact lens Collection at the BOA Museum College of Optometrists, London, and an ABDO Contact lens examiner.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Meadow Cottage, Green Farm Lane, Shorne Gravesend, Kent DA12 3HL, UK. Tel.: +44 1474 822919; mobile: 44 7967 023845.
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  • A. Harknett

      Affiliations

    • A. Harknett is Senior Contact Lens Lecturer in the Centre for Applied Optics at City and Islington College London, Fellow and Past President of the BCLA, and an ABDO Contact lens examiner.

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doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2005.12.002

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 5-15 , March 2006

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