Letter: Evidence-based lens prescribing decisions

Further to the coverage of No7 Contact Lenses launch of its Elements hybrid contact lens (Optician 23.06.17), I’d like to alleviate any concerns that this coverage might have given your readers following Katie Harrop’s assertion that there were ‘issues’ with ‘previous hybrid designs’.

I am sure Ms Harrop was referring to lenses no longer marketed, where lens design issues caused lens adherence to the eye and frequent junction breakage were the scourge of both practitioners and patients.

As the pioneer of the modern hybrid lens in SynergEyes, I’d like to reassure everybody that the lenses of today bear no resemblance of the lenses of the past. The consequence of SynergEyes research and development over the past 15 years has resulted in a range of successful designs to tackle a variety of fitting challenges, such as keratoconic and post-surgical corneas.