The timing is right for a revised edition of Anterior Segment Complications of Contact Lens Wear . The editor is Director of the Cornea and Specialty Contact Lens Service at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. Chapter authors are optometrists and Fellows of the American Academy of Optometry from the United States, Canada and Australia. Some section and chapter titles have changed or have been eliminated in this revised edition. Corneal topography is the focus of a new chapter providing a wealth of color maps.
Chapters are generally well written and consistently organized.
Some chapters have more than one case report, and a few end with useful appendices not listed in the table of contents. The appendices feature sample questionnaires, fitting agreements, companies and product information. The large selection of color images interspersed with the text is a great improvement on the set of color photos in the front of the first edition. Image quality and prevalence of markers to sites of pathology which concerned a reviewer of the first edition, are improved but not completely resolved. References range from 1888-1999 and almost all chapters have referenced developments since the 1994 publication.