When we began our careers, we thought that contact lens technology was amazing. In 1899 Charles Duell, commissioner of the US patent office said: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” By no means do we want to say that we were silly enough to think that technology had hit its end, but the strides enjoyed by contact lens’ technological development has not slowed at all in recent years.
Although we can highlight many achievements, we would like to select two that we feel are changing the current contact lens wearing paradigm: (1) single-use lenses (daily disposable) and their impact on our lens wearers and (2) large-diameter lenses, specifically scleral lenses, and how a wider adoption of this technology by practitioners is shaping the fitting paradigm for our patients with irregular corneas.
By David Kading, OD, and Mile Brujic, OD
See more at: http://eyetubeod.com/2014/02/contact-lens-technology-highlights#sthash.HAwgRdJp.dpuf
