Are eye-care practitioners fitting scleral contact lenses?

Clinical & Experimental Optometry : Journal of the Australian Optometrical Association
Craig A WoodsInternational Contact Lens Prescribing Survey Consortium

Abstract

To determine the extent of scleral lens fitting worldwide and to characterise the associated patient demographics. Survey forms were sent to contact lens fitters around the world, every year for 20 consecutive years (2000 to 2019). Practitioners were asked to record data relating to the first 10 contact lens fits or refits performed after receiving the survey. Data were analysed for those countries reporting ≥ 1,000 contact lens fits during this period. A total of 369,209 contact lens fits were recorded from 40 eligible countries, comprising 2,309 scleral lens fits and 366,900 other (non-scleral) lens fits. Overall scleral lenses represented 0.76 per cent of all contact lens fits with significant differences between countries (p < 0.0001), ranging from no fits in six countries: Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, to 5.9 per cent in Switzerland. There has been an increase in scleral lens fitting over the survey period (p < 0.0001), with the rate of fits increasing from negligible (< 0.50 per cent) before 2006 and then increasing from 2011 onward (p < 0.0001). Scleral lenses were fit to older patients (38.5 ± 15.0 years) compared to other lenses (31.4 ± 13.7 years) (p < 0.0001), this age disparity increasing ...Continue Reading

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