Reprising the Gothenburg study

In this special issue of Contact Lens and Anterior Eye on the theme of "Long-term Effects of Contact Lens Wear", the two surviving members of the original five authors of the celebrated "Gothenburg Study" [1]" NE and DS, the authors of the present paper" feel that it is apposite to reprise this work, which was published 37 years ago. The Gothenburg Study, formally titled "Effects of long-term extended contact lens wear on the human cornea", is the tenth most cited publication of all time (331 cites), out of a total of 12,861 papers with "contact lens" in the title (Scopus [Elsevier]; search conducted June 10, 2021). The findings of this work were, and still are, novel and remarkable, and the conclusions and recommendations essentially established a blueprint for the development of contact lenses over the subsequent three decades.