Long-Term Dislocation of a Hard Contact Lens

Abstract

A 48-year-old female was fitted with hard contact lenses and lost the right lens the next day. She was asymptomatic for 62 months but then presented with a painful mass in the right superonasal orbital quadrant. Surgical exploration was non-diagnostic. Five months later the contact lens was found in the right upper fornix. This case emphasizes the importance of a thorough ocular examination, including double eversion of the lids and sweeping the fornices of patients with unidentified periocular masses or pain.