When a new lens comes out, we all celebrate. The innovators start fitting, and the laggards look on with hesitation. It’s natural for clinicians to turn to a new option to fix the problems of their patients. But, what should we know about a lens or a product before we start using it?
If a patient has dry eye, does a dry eye drug guarantee success? If a patient has presbyopia, will a multifocal lens always work for them? And, if a patient has progressive myopia, will a soft multifocal be a one-size-fits-all? While the daily disposable multifocal lenses currently on the market are certainly going to benefit millions of patients, are they capable of solving all of our patients’ problems?
Just like a dry eye medication won’t work for everyone, practitioners need to understand all of the aspects of myopia management opportunities and to know when one might work better than another as well as when we need to switch from one option to another. Likewise, as we start fitting more and more of our patients into multifocal daily disposable lenses for myopia management, make sure to stay abreast on all the options for your myopia patients.
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