SUMMARY
A clinical evaluation of the use of the Occasions® multifocal soft contact tenses for the correction of presbiopia was conducted on 47 patients, 36 of wich were women and 11 men, with an age span varying from 41 to 52. 66% of the subjects were hiperopia. The average follow-up time was 8,6 months.
72,3% of the patients obtained 20/30 vision or better and 48,9% obtained near-vision acuity of J1. The rate of success in adapting the lens was 55%. 22 of the patients had no previous experience with any kind of contact lenses. The difference in the rates of success did not vary significant between this group and those patients who were previous users of other kinds of contacts lenses. The most frequent complaint, expressed by 42,5% of the patients, was low visual acuity for distance, especcially at night.