When you are a loser, are you always a loser? When you are a failure, do you always fail? If you’re a dropout, are you always a dropout?
Contact lenses are fantastic, and we love them. Young patients often tell me that they’ve been saving up their allowance to buy their first contact lenses. They want them and love them, until they don’t.
We all encounter patients who have stopped wearing their lenses. Many of them want to wear lenses again but don’t think that a better option is available to them. One study reported that 77% of discontinued contact lens wearers were successfully refit, most of them into daily disposable lenses.1 If 10% to 20% of your patients are dropping out of their lenses, and if 77% of them can be refit, wouldn’t it be ideal to bring the subject up to them again? Share with them that you don’t see them as a forever contact lens failure.
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