Plastic surgeons in Beijing were injecting a patient's own fat behind her left eye when several clear contact lenses began sliding out from under her upper eyelid. When the team folded the lid back to look deeper, they counted five soft contact lenses tucked into the same hidden pocket.
The 33-year-old woman had no idea they were there. She remembered losing her left contact lens several times "many years prior," and she had not experienced any eye symptoms before the operation, according to a case report in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open.
