New long-term study affirms contact lens wear as healthy option for children

(McDougall Communications) A newly-published work highlights the long-term ocular health of children wearing daily disposable soft contact lenses and reports minimal impact on physiology over six years. Its results affirm that such lenses are an option for children as young as eight years old. Across the entire study period, there were no contact lens-related serious adverse events, and the low incidence rate of corneal infiltrative events were the equivalent of 6.1 per 1,000 wearing years.