Key takeaways:
- Toric multifocal contact lenses elevated the share of eyes with ametropia lined by a lens portfolio.
- Bausch + Lomb Extremely lenses cowl 97.3% of eyes with ametropia.
MINNEAPOLIS — The supply of a toric multifocal lens in a portfolio of soppy contact lenses elevated the portfolio’s protection of ametropia from 78.3% to 97.3%, based on a poster at Optometry’s Assembly.
The discovering got here from an evaluation of how nicely the Bausch + Lomb Extremely household of contact lenses would cowl the refractive wants of a inhabitants of 101,973 optometric sufferers (58.5% feminine), represented utilizing prescription information. The Bausch + Lomb Extremely portfolio contains spherical and toric lenses obtainable in multifocal or single imaginative and prescient, all 4 of that are changed month-to-month.
Bausch + Lomb Extremely lenses cowl 97.3% of eyes with ametropia.
“Do you could have a contact lens model that’s protecting the whole lot that [you can offer to] actually any affected person who walks into your clinic?” examine writer Doerte Luensmann, PhD, senior medical scientist on the Centre for Ocular Analysis & Training on the College of Waterloo, instructed Healio. “There are lenses on the market that do cowl greater than 97% of your sufferers’ eyes.”
Within the dataset, there have been 54,778 sufferers with presbyopia and 47,195 sufferers with out presbyopia. Astigmatism was no less than –0.75 D of cylinder in 44% and 39% of eyes in these teams, respectively.
For eyes with astigmatism of not more than 0.5 D of cylinder, the only imaginative and prescient lens, which ranges from 6 D to –12 D, would cowl 99.9% of eyes. The multifocal lens, which ranges from 6 D to –10 D, would cowl 99.7%.
Amongst eyes with astigmatism of no less than –0.75 D of cylinder, the toric single imaginative and prescient lens, which ranges from 6 D to –9 D and as much as –2.75 D of cylinder in all axes, would cowl 95.3%. The multifocal toric lens, which ranges from 4 D to –6 D and as much as –1.75 D of cylinder in all axes, would cowl 92.3%.
Total, the group of lenses lined 97.3% of eyes throughout all age teams and prescriptions. With out the toric multifocal choice, that dropped to 78.3%.
“Ultimately, the benefit of getting a toric multifocal lens along with the opposite three lens varieties actually ended up rounding the protection,” Luensmann stated.
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For extra info:
Doerte Luensmann, PhD, may be reached at doerte.luensmann@uwaterloo.ca
Sources/Disclosures
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Luensmann D, et al. Protection of ametropia with a deliberate substitute tender contact lens portfolio. Introduced at: Optometry’s Assembly; June 25-28, 2025; Minneapolis.
Disclosures:
Luensmann stories no related monetary disclosures. The examine was funded by Bausch + Lomb.
