For anyone who has followed these specialty contact lens articles over time you will have noticed a conspicuous lack of mention of the dominant segment of the contact lens market - soft lenses. The reason for this is simple - I don’t consider the fitting of modern soft contact lenses much of a specialty. In fact, many would argue that the term ‘fitting’ is inappropriate given the process generally involves unscientifically selecting a favourite lens type from a trial set and seeing how the patient goes with it.
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