Letters: January 25

Through your excellent journal, I would like to make the profession aware of the recent dilemma I am having with Johnson & Johnson Visioncare. I also wonder if it is true that I am the only contact lens practitioner who is experiencing similar problems since the discontinuation of the Acuvue Toric.

In May 1988, some four months before the official UK launch, I began weekly extended wear trials on numerous patients using the Acuvue lens, the world's first disposable contact lens. Because of soft stabilised wet moulding, the lens could be mass produced very cheaply. It was extremely thin (0.07mm minus powers) and made of Etafilcon A (Group 4, 58 per cent water content material). This new innovation quickly produced a large contingent of happy weekly extended wear patients who up until the end of 2007, when it was discontinued, were still wearing Acuvue.