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Corneal thickness is important because it can obscure an accurate measurement of eye pressure, causing doctors to label you with Glaucoma that may not really exist or to treat you unnecessarily when you are normal. Actual IOP may be underestimated in patients with thinner CCT, and overestimated in patients with thicker CCT.
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This page is a summary of: Effect of age, sex, and refractive errors on central corneal thickness measured by Oculus Pentacam®, Clinical Ophthalmology, June 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/opth.s141313.
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