Presbyopes in Your Practice
Bausch & Lomb Multi-Focal Design vs. Monovision
Multifocal vs. Monovision
- Myth #1 - Monovision is the best place to start
- Myth #2 - Fitting monovision takes less chair time
- Myth #3 - Patients adapt to monovision more easily
- Myth #4 - Multifocal lenses compromise visual quality
- Myth #5 - Patients won't pay more for multifocal contact lenses
- Fitting Multifocals on a Monovision Patient
- Clinical Outcomes
- Assessing the Design of PureVision ® Multi-Focal vs. Monovision
A study was conducted at The Ohio State University College of Optometry to compare the Bausch & Lomb SofLens Multi-Focal lens (which utilizes the same design as PureVision Multi-Focal contact lenses) with a traditional monovision correction.
Final preference and follow-up survey results (responses recorded 6 months to 1 year after completion of the study) are shown below.
The key findings of this study include:
- Three out of four of the surveyed patients reported that they preferred multifocal to monovision.
- Three times more multifocal patients than monovision patients were still wearing their lenses at least three days a week 6-12 months after completing the study.
- None of the monovision patients considered contact lenses to be their preferred form of vision correction.
These results show that there is a clear preference for the proven Bausch & Lomb Multifocal lens design platform versus traditional monovision correction. However, as lens designers can attest, adapting a successful optical design to a new lens material is rarely a straightforward process.
