Why GP Contact Lenses for Ocular Disease?
When considering the best tools available for the fitting challenges of patients with corneal health complications, comfort issues and highly specific visual needs, Janice Schramm, Vice President of an Oregon CLMA-member laboratory, points out: “Today’s GP materials offer a high DK to allow the necessary oxygen, are highly stable with almost no flexure, and have superior wettable quality to give these patients a custom-manufactured contact lens with considerably fewer compromises.” And, she adds, ” giving these patients these fitting options is in step with the Fairness to Consumer Act and they will faithfully return to that practitioner.
