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News|Articles|July 23, 2024
- July digital edition 2024
- Volume 16
- Issue 07
Stability is an important quality in toric lenses
Author(s)Erin Rueff, OD, PhD, FAAO
The quality of options for patients has improved in recent years.
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Historically, constraints such as limited parameter availability, lens rotation, and unreliable stabilization methods meant that some optometrists avoided prescribing soft toric contact lenses. The perception was that soft toric contact lenses took more chair time than they were worth and did not deliver visual outcomes that outperformed spherical options, especially for patients with low amounts of astigmatism. For some, a few bad experiences with toric lenses 10 or even 20 years ago may have left a negative impression that persists.
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