From science to practice: a new multifocal

Previous publications have highlighted the significant opportunity for increasing the prescribing rate for multifocal contact lenses, since presbyopes remain under-represented among contact lens wearers. In addition, there is scope for introducing a new soft multifocal designed to meet patients’ unmet needs.1,2

With previous soft multifocal designs, success rates of 50 per cent and poor vision quality were reported.3 A recent study among established presbyopes with a mean age of 51 years (range 43-66 years) found that subjective performance with one multifocal design was generally no better than with monovision.4 These authors acknowledge the general belief that fitting contact lenses to presbyopes is less successful with increasing add power.