Conversations in practice: managing the long-term wearer with no change in Rx

We would all like our practices to be busy with happy, loyal patients. If our appointment book is full and our contact lens wearers assure us that everything’s fine, it’s easy to think that we’re doing our best.

But are we really continuously maintaining ocular health and optimising lens performance for everyone, even if there is ‘no change’? Or are we assuming that everything’s fine, and that what works for our patients today will still be working a few years, or even a few months, in the future?

The previous article in this series talked about the conversations we can have in practice that help identify the changing needs of long-term contact lens wearers, such as developing presbyopia and uncorrected astigmatism. However, we should be making sure that every wearer’s contact lenses are as comfortable as possible, with minimal impact on ocular physiology, no matter what their visual correction or history of wear.