CLE Contact Lenses

In a recent Pew Hawkins Survey taken on college campuses a variety of trends emerged.

Our obvious interest was in, just how popular (or not) contact lenses are – on college campuses nationwide. In the survey, which polled more than 4,400 college freshmen and seniors more than 54% of those surveyed would prefer wearing contact lenses over traditional frames or glasses. Of those polled, no particular brand was identified as the “go to” brand. However, the Acuvue brand was universally voted as the most “familiar” brand.

There was no clear second most “familiar” brand.
An interesting data point was that 31% of the men polled said they’d be willing to try or use colored contact lenses while more than 58% of the females polled said they either did or would be willing to try and use colored contact lenses.

Are you a college aged wearer of contact lenses or glasses? If so, we’d love to hear what you have to say about the following:

1) If given the choice between contact lenses and glasses, which would you prefer?
2) Is there a particular brand of contact lenses you would pick over another?
3) If you answered yes to question #2 above, which brand would it be?
4) If you were given the opportunity to try colored contact lenses, would you try them?
5) How many people can you think of, off the top of your head that wear contact lenses?

Hit our blog comments with answers to any or all of the above.

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