Eye injury: Injury or irritation to the eye can cause the sclera to look red or bloodshot. When the sclera is damaged, it can cause pain, swelling and redness, and vision loss.

The sclera is the outer layer of your eye. You’ve probably heard it referred to as the “white of your eye.” It’s made up of fibrous connective tissue that covers the eyeball and surrounds ...

Scleral contact lenses are larger than the cornea. Most are 14 to 24 millimeters in diameter. They vault over the cornea and rest on the sclera, the tough, white part of the eye. The fluid within ...

Scleral buckling is a surgical procedure used to repair a retinal detachment. Learn more about when you need it, how to prepare for the surgery, and the long-term outlook.

Long-term outcome of conjunctival fixation sutures to the sclera for prolapsed subconjunctival orbital fat M K Yang, N Kim, H-K Choung & S I Khwarg Eye 31, 749–752 (2017) Cite this article ...

Your eye doctor will have you try on different lenses so that you can test their comfort and learn if they’ll work for you. From there, they’ll test the fit of the lenses and your vision.