Latest figures reveal that it was daily disposable lenses that outperformed other segments in 2011, with almost twice the growth of the soft contact lens sector as a whole (5.2 per cent vs 2.9 per cent) while reusable lens sales remained flat. Toric daily disposables performed particularly well, showing growth of 18.1 per cent.
International data for 2011 show that northern European countries have the highest prescribing rates for daily disposable lenses in the world. Of 29 countries surveyed for the journal Contact Lens Spectrum, Norway and Denmark take the top two places, with over half of soft lenses prescribed in this modality (56 per cent and 55 per cent), and the UK is not far behind at 43 per cent.
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