From Los Angeles to Abu Dhabi: How a custom contact lens gave a 28-year-old 20/20 vision after a childhood eye injury

“From Los Angeles to Abu Dhabi: How a custom contact lens gave a 28-year-old 20/20 vision after a childhood eye injury”

Danna Jordan was 10 years old and playing with her brother when an object pierced her right eye. Surgeons repaired her cornea (the clear front window of the eye) and replaced the damaged natural lens with an implant. The eye was saved, but a scar remained on the lower cornea. Eighteen years later, the 28-year-old from Los Angeles could see only 20/400 with that eye, even with glasses - roughly the large letter at the top of an eye chart. For eight years, the eye had also been drifting outward,…