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Fitting tomorrow's presbyope

Last year CooperVision invited seven of the world's leading contact lens experts to its research and development facility in Pleasanton, California. During a roundtable discussion, chaired by Jonathan Walker, the panel looked at the correction of the presbyope

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Morgan: 'We have collected data on lens fitting now for about 15 years. We've got a database of about 200,000 prospectively collected fits now across 30 countries.

'When we reflect on presbyopic contact lens fitting over this period, it's actually quite a story of success. In some ways this has crept up on us a little bit, but we are managing presbyopes more appropriately in 2011 than when we started the survey in the late 1990s. For example, in the late 1990s, of all contact lenses prescribed, around 15 per cent were patients in the presbyopic age group. Nowadays it's around 30 per cent. So the number of presbyopes fitted, at least according to our survey, has doubled over this period.

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