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85% of Teenagers Have Bad Contact Lens Habits
85% of Teenagers Have Bad Contact Lens Habits
November 26, 2023
As we go into 2018, one area that eyecare professionals can focus on and is a part of healthy living is proper use and care of wearing contact lenses. The new report from the Center of Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on contact lens stats was released to coincide with Contact Lens Health Week, August 21-25, 2017. This was the first data on the estimated 3 million U.S. adolescents ages 12 to 17 years who use contact lenses.