I wish my clients would stop licking their contact...

What do you wish your patients would stop doing?

28 months ago

By Robert K. Maloney, MD - Los Angeles Ophthalmologist

I wish my clients would stop licking their contact lenses and putting them back in their eye. They would be better off rinsing the contacts in a toilet than in their mouth, because the toilet has fewer germs!

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