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ArticlePharmaceutics2025

3D-Printed Contact Lenses to Release Polyvinyl Alcohol as a Therapeutic Agent for the Treatment of Dry Eyes.

Piyush Garg, Parvin Shokrollahi, Haile Fentahun Darge, Chau-Minh Phan, Lyndon Jones

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Piyush GargCentre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE), School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
Parvin ShokrollahiCentre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE), School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
Haile Fentahun DargeCentre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE), School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
Chau-Minh PhanCentre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE), School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
Lyndon JonesCentre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE), School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7409-7349

Funding

InnoHK initiative and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, COETF, NSERC's Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program, Mitacs, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo (W.S. Rickert Fellowship in Science) CEVR_InnoHK
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

desiccation stressdry eye diseasepolyvinyl alcoholshape fidelitythree-dimensional-printed contact lenses

Identifiers

PMID40006586
PMCPMC11859406

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