Letter: Permeability isn’t everything

In the report relating to Coopervision’s inaugural European Media Summit (Optician, 7.12.18) Chris Bennett, editor, poses the question: ‘Fitting wearers with the healthiest contact lens option is what everyone wants so why doesn’t it always happen?’ In this letter I would like address what I believe is the more fundamental question: ‘What is the healthiest contact lens option?’

Marcella McParland, Coopervision’s director of professional services for European, Middle East and Africa region, is reported as accepting that daily disposables are ‘driving growth’. This answers part of the question, ie that the daily disposable modality is now widely, if not universally, agreed to be the healthiest modality. Those in the industry who follow such matters now accept this conclusion because it is based on a massive body of evidence reported over 25 years of independent research and practical field-experience. Daily disposable wear is the ‘healthiest modality’ … full stop.