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Supported by an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc (RPB).
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We wish to thank Tod Turrif, Prevent Blindness America, and Pat Schneider, United States Eye Injury Registry, for their cooperation in providing timely data for publication in this article.