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The article focuses on the patient factors involved in selecting a toric lens design. It examines the demographics of patients with astigmatism seeking for ideal toric lens design and evaluates the different types of the disease to understand the different lens options available. It also presents a self-assessment examination related to the stabilization factors of toric contact lenses.

The article presents information on a study to determine whether wearing spherical lenses with small amounts of uncorrected astigmatism can be beneficial as compared to being fitted with a silicone hydrogel toric lens design. The study found that correcting low amounts of astigmatism can improve contact lens patients' clinical outcomes.

The article focuses on the advantages of daily disposable contact lenses, including toric designs, and other technologies in eye care. The author mentions that daily disposable contact lenses offer patients better convenience of a fresh lens, minus the hassle of cleaning and monitoring a replacement schedule. They add that such contact lenses can also benefit astigmatic patients.

The article discusses the use of soft toric contact lenses in correcting astigmatism. It compares the advantages of using various types of contact lenses in correcting refractive astigmatism, which include rigid gas-permeable lenses, thick soft lenses, aspheric hydrogel lenses and soft toric lenses. It describes the various designs of soft toric contact lenses, as well as the technique for fitting soft toric lenses.

The article focuses on the development of Acuvue Advance soft contact lenses and the researchers effort to study the performance of soft contact lenses for astigmatic patients. It was found that the lenses that achieved orientation using a design based on prism ballast principles would quickly reorient with the base of the lens down.

Presents statistics which illustrates why patients discontinue contact lens wear. Percentage of patients who considers discomfort as their main reason for switching back to eyeglasses; Percentage of patients who dropped out due to expenses; Percentage of patients who discontinued wearing contact lens because of uncorrected astigmatism.