View from the BCLA: Join the contact lens revolution

Contact lenses offer eye care professionals a golden opportunity to change people’s lives for the better.

It is vital that practitioners make the most of the technology available to them to help ensure their patients get the best possible fit to suit their needs.

With advances in technology moving at such speed it is easy to feel overawed by the pace of change and left behind by it. But by paying close attention to developments at home and overseas we can raise our game.

Previously, patients with limiting factors such as the shape of their eyes, scars from corneal grafts or underlying medical issues would have been virtually impossible to fit with contact lenses. But the impossible has become possible.