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Professor Lyndon Jones, long time professor at the University of Waterloo where he is director the Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE), has been at the forefront of contact lens material research over the 20 years since silicone hydrogel was first introduced.

In the second of his recent lectures in Birmingham, part of a busy worldwide education tour organised by CooperVision, Jones asked the audience a simple question – ‘why silicone hydrogel?’ Though the material has known health benefits and 1-day silicone hydrogel contact lenses have been available for around 10 years, only half (52%) of the daily disposable fits recorded in the 2017 international prescribing report used silicone hydrogel materials.