Dec. 2, 2015
SynergEyes, Inc., a provider of hybrid contact lens technology and contact lenses, has gleaned insight into the true toric-patient experience through two recent studies: a national study of 400 toric wearers, and a clinical study of the four leading toric brands. The study reveals the challenges astigmatic patients experience with toric lenses, and their ongoing quest to find more satisfactory vision correction options.
Eighty-two percent of toric wearers reveal that they frequently experience issues with their toric lenses. Of those, almost 40 percent experience issues three, or more, times per day. The issues include blurry and hazy vision, fluctuating, unstable and shifting vision, rotating lenses and discomfort. Patients feel irritated and frustrated with their toric lens issues. They also feel worried, hindered and helpless while experiencing lens-related vision issues, especially since the vision issues often occur while they are engaged in critical activities such as driving, working, participating in athletic activities, or simply laying down to read or watch TV.1
These feelings are not surprising, as clinical data reveals even the leading toric lenses take a long time to recover if misoriented. Seventy-four percent of misoriented toric lenses take longer than 60 seconds to recover! Only 11 percent recover within 30 seconds.2 As a result, 85 percent of toric patients must manually reorient their toric lenses to regain vision: rubbing eyes, blinking a lot, sticking fingers in eyes and pushing on eyelids.1
Given their challenges with toric lenses, almost half of toric wearers have tried multiple brands, and 59 percent believe there must be a better lens for astigmatism. Almost 3/4 of toric wearers would pay more for a lens that eliminates their toric issues.1
SynergEyes has developed an infographic illustrating key insights from the studies. The Toric Patient Experience Infographic can be downloaded at http://hubs.ly/H01qjHV0.
The clinical and patient studies were conducted by SynergEyes as part of an ongoing effort to gain a deeper understanding of patient vision challenges and vision correction needs.
References
1 Study of 400 toric wearers. Data on file.
2 Non-dispensing clinical study of 38 eyes (leading 4 toric brands). Data on file.
3 GP optics negates corneal astigmatism; rotation of lens inconsequential.
