Ten reasons why rigid contact lenses are obsolete

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Now that the 'prediction year' of 2010 has ended, I can reflect upon my prediction in the context of having collected - together with Dr Philip Morgan and an international team of colleagues - 15 years of contact lens prescribing data in the UK and 40 other nations. Figure 2 demonstrates the dramatic decline in rigid lens fitting in the UK from 1965 to the present time. International rigid lens fitting data gathered in 2010 is equally as bleak.2 In 14 of the 28 countries surveyed, new rigid lens fits amounted to 5 per cent or less of all lens fits.