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Microscopic evaluation of the ocular structures has always been a challenge for ophthalmic clinicians and researchers. In Vivo Confocal Microscopy utilized ophthalmologists and scientists to evaluate the anterior segment and revolutionized some aspects of diagnosis and management the patients. Nowadays confocal microscopy is becoming an indispensable tool for studying living cornea and other ocular surface structures at a cellular level. This technology provides fast and non-invasive images of different layers in both normal and pathologic eyes which are so helpful in studying of normal cornea, diagnosis of several disorders and monitoring the patients. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the principles of confocal microscopy and its different types and finally summarize several applications of confocal microscopy and characteristics findings in some of clinical states such as infectious keratitis, dry eye, ocular allergy and contact lens wearing.

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