A review on research of range and main commodity characteristics of soft contact lenses

Abstract

Contact lenses are the most convenient and common means of vision correction worldwide. Soft contact lenses in the world are used by a vast majority of contact vision correction enthusiasts (about 90 % of patients) because the lenses are easy-to-use at the very first application and require almost no adaptation, they have high flexibility, small thickness, and as a result the users feel they have a high comfort level immediately after wearing and also the soft lenses are suitable for correction of all major refractive errors of the eye. The analysis of the range and basic commodity characteristics of soft contact lenses, which are present in the pharmaceutical market of Ukraine has been performed. On the basis of Ukrainian market analysis it has been found that dominant positions of soft contact lenses market have: South Korea, Indonesia, joint ventures of EU countries (UK, Italy, Spain), the US and Singapore, and Australia.