The Effect of Two Different Types of Daily Disposable Monofocal Contact Lenses on Ocular Wavefront Aberrations

Abstract

Background: To compare the effect of two daily disposable soft contact lenses on ocular wavefront aberrations. Methods: This study included 34 eyes from 17 patients aged 18 to 40 years (mean age: 27.12 +/- 8.3 years) with identical myopic refractive errors in both eyes without astigmatism and requesting contact lens use. Initially, wavefront aberrations; total, tilt, high, total coma, total trefoil, total 4.foil, sphere, high astigmatism, RMS (3 mm/5 mm) were measured using Nidek OPD Scan II aberrometer/topograph in both eyes without contact lenses. Acuvue Oasys with HydraLuxe 1-Day (senofilcon A) daily disposable contact lenses were applied to the right eye, while Precision 1 (verofilcon A) daily disposable contact lenses were applied to the left eye based on refractive errors. Wavefront aberration measurements were repeated 60 min later with contact lenses, and aberrations were compared to baseline and fellow eyes' measurements. The magnitudes of aberration changes after contact lens application were analyzed. Results: Both types of daily disposable contact lenses reduced total wavefront aberrations. Acuvue Oasys with HydraLuxe 1-Day contact lenses showed a significant increase in total trefoil aberration (p = 0.048). Precision 1 contact lenses showed a significant increase (p = 0.034) only in total tilt aberrations compared to baseline. No significant differences were found between the lenses regarding changes in all wavefront aberrations. Conclusion: Both daily disposable lenses effectively reduced total wavefront aberrations, though they increased certain subtypes of high-order aberrations in young adult myopes.