Performance: Exploring variability in soft contact lens performance

The past few years have seen important developments in the contact lens field designed to improve soft contact lens comfort. Comfort is a key feature of contact lens wear for patients, with discomfort the primary reason for discontinuing lens use.^1,2

There tend to be two specific times during contact lens wear when comfort performance is taken into account both for contact lens manufacturers and eye care practitioners (ECPs): initial comfort on application and end-of-day (EOD) comfort. For example, ECPs often question their patients about EOD contact lens performance complaints, while specific moments in between can be overlooked.

A closer look at what happens not only on application of a contact lens and end-of-day removal but at the moments between, would uncover a more varied set of experiences that wearers go through.