Contact lens education to go at the BCLA

Over the course of every BCLA conference a theme eventually becomes clear. As the credits roll and delegates emerge from another performance, for performance it is, it’s not difficult to see what someone, somewhere has decided it’s all about.

In 2013 there was no doubt: it was all about contact lens comfort. And in 2014 it seemed to be about comfort again. Or was it?

The well-rehearsed arguments that comfort is the key to contact lens success and discomfort the primary reason for failure were played out. Contact lens dropout, said Lyndon Jones in the opening keynote address, was due to one of three causes: the lens, the solution or the patient.