WHY RGP CONTACT LENSES, INSTEAD OF SOFT LENSES?
There is a viable alternative to soft lenses . Soft lenses that: 1. Have a much higher incidence of infection. 2. Often provide less than optimum VA 3. Usually have a higher per-year cost to the patient without a corresponding benefit to the patient or the practice. 4. Often turn patents into ex-patients that are also often less compliant with recommended hygiene procedures. 5. Do little or nothing to promote the practice. There is also a viable alternative to RGP lenses that can burn up an enormous amount of chair time while often disappointing and frustrating the doctor as well as the patient. The initial comfort of soft lenses is not because they are soft! Rather because: (A) Soft lenses are not intra-palpebral lenses. As such, it is not necessary for the upper lid to negotiate the edge of the lenses as the patient blinks. The answer of course, is to insist your lab fabricate lenses with edges that have not only the right configuration, but also lenses that have edges that are thin
