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Medical Forum / General / Vision / February 2006Acuvue Advance to Oasys Positive Switch
My wife has been suffering through the use of Acuvue Advance lenses for the past year. Mostly the brand new Advance lenses were scratchy out of the pkg. I told her about the fairly new Oasys lenses and she just went into the eye doctor. He had her fitted with the trial Oasys lenses right after the exam. Immediately she felt the difference in comfort. Now she is an immediate believer in the Oasys lens and will NEVER go back to the Advance lenses. I wanted to share this in case there are other Acuvue Advance lens "sufferers" out there and need to find a solution. You might consider the Acuvue Oasys lenses. thanks for the heads up. Ive tried several different brands and none are comfortable. And now that I find out I have -1.5 diopters astigmastim in the right eye, I wont get very good vision except from RGP contacts. > My wife has been suffering through the use of Acuvue Advance lenses for > the past year. Mostly the brand new Advance lenses were scratchy out of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > is an immediate believer in the Oasys lens and will NEVER go back to the > Advance lenses. So base curve is irrelevant? The two materials are pretty similar. -MT > My wife has been suffering through the use of Acuvue Advance lenses for > the past year. Mostly the brand new Advance lenses were scratchy out of [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > "sufferers" out there and need to find a solution. You might consider > the Acuvue Oasys lenses. I've only tried the Advance on a few patients but so far none have been very enthusiastic about it. I haven't heard too many good stories about it from others either. I've heard plenty of good stories about the Oasys... but it's not available here in Australia just yet! Looking forward to trying it. Dom > I've only tried the Advance on a few patients but so far none have been > very enthusiastic about it. I haven't heard too many good stories about it > from others either. Here's one. I have a lot of patients wearing AV283, and for the past year I've sent many of them home wearing an AVA trial on one eye, AV2 on the other, to compare and choose. With a sample of around 200 patients, roughly 40-50% prefer AVA for comfort, to the degree that AV2 has fallen behind AVA in sales at one office. There's a small number, maybe 5%, who find the AVA distinctly _less_ comfortable than the AV2. I don't have an explanation for that. I haven't used Oasys as much, but it does seem to outpace the Advance, at least a little. -MT > > I've only tried the Advance on a few patients but so far none have been > > very enthusiastic about it. I haven't heard too many good stories about it [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > I haven't used Oasys as much, but it does seem to outpace the Advance, at > least a little. I sent all of my Acuvue Advance back for the Oasys, and I don't dispense any AV2's anymore. DrG > -MT > I sent all of my Acuvue Advance back for the Oasys, and I don't > dispense any AV2's anymore. > > DrG Likewise, on both accounts. If you a/b the AA and Oasys on the same patient (allowing for adaption and dissipation of the slick stuff in the storage solution), AA always looses. It'll be gone in no time. The lens has no place in my practice, especially considering the superior alternatives. LB, O.D. |
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