You don't really need eye protect if you just use a face shield mask, as you should for any surgery with power, irrigation, amp, etc (so any F&A surgery). Even the thin clear shield attached to the mask or as OR glasses cuts any tiny bit of scatter rad significantly (over half).
Personally, I just use thyroid shield for mini or large c-arm. The above research jonwill had posted has been repeated a few times with same results. With large C-arm, I might do lead vest if it's a longer case (trauma or something with a lot of position checks or a "go live" portion). It is distance and time for rad protection, and my time is basically zero on most stuff, though.
For most cases I do, I am shooting 1 or 2 or 3 shots for 0.0x second pictures at the end (check the reduction or lag screw or pin or fusion position, then shoot a final or two before closing (which I can step way back on).
Also, I do maybe avg 5 surgery cases that need XR per month and 3-5 that don't. My c-arm time in a year is amost certainly under one minute (a few traumas using 2-5sec per year, the rest elective and basic ankle fx well under 1sec flouro). My dosimeter is basically undetectable, even in residency with daily surgery.
It might be different for newer attendings or ppl who like to use a lot of c-arm time and like to use a lot of cannulated screws or check things frequently? I notice teaching attendings also use a lot more flouro time than non-teaching. I think the generation who did solid screw and visualizing reduction/position is different from the one that wants cannulated everything and jigs for everything. I was a bit of a tweener in that training regard, but always I lean to a good looking bunion visually over taking 10 pics to decide the translation/position. Solid screws are also a lot stronger and cheaper (at the sizes podiatry uses).
It'd also be different for someone who does surgery almost every day or a lot of RRA/trauma that's XR heavy (a few hospital DPMs, ortho group DPMs, residents and fellows).
It might be
much different for a female DPM as males get new gametes every few days while women have all of theirs and, as mentioned, rad is cumulative. That is not unwise to use vest even for mini C.
If anything, surgeons who do a ton of live manips (hand surgery, IR, spine, cath docs, etc) should use the rad-block gloves, double glove, etc. That cylinder of energy (even mini-C) is where the appreciable exposure is from every study.
...I really think we go a little overboard in podiatry sometimes and over-estimate our own importance: five-page op reports, quad scrubbing, more lead than most orthos or onco surgeons, OR caps in the hospital cafe, five acronyms after DPM. Because podiatry.
That last paragraph 
….and realizing that I was usually going way overboard on mine.
