Putting the skill back into soft lens fitting

The next time you reach for a diagnostic bank to select a contact lens for your patient, consider this: with more than 14 billion eyes on the planet – each one unique – is it likely that one size of soft lens can really fit all?

This was the question posed by mark’ennovy, a company founded 20 years ago this year that delivers a combination of soft lens parameters, geometries and materials to enhance patients’ experience of contact lenses.

A roundtable meeting at the company’s Madrid base brought together European practitioners, researchers and educators to consider one of the key challenges facing the profession: how to put expertise back into contact lens fitting. Presentations from three panel members set the scene for some lively discussion.