NEW YORK — Nearly a quarter of more than 2,000 contact lens and spectacle wearers surveyed said they wear both modalities to correct their vision, according to a report from the Contact Lens Institute presented at Vision Expo East.
“When we look at the glasses-only patients, 18% of them said they’d be interested in contact lenses if they knew about them. Those who wear contact lenses (18%) said they’d like to wear spectacles more often,” Contact Lens Institute (CLI) board chair Michelle Andrews, OD, said during a CLI-sponsored event. “More than one-third of