2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#393 of 1000 · 2,995 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 2,995 reports
  • RANK #393 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 2,882 injury-typed
  • MALF 40 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2016: 220
  • PHOTO Latex Patient Examina…

Nearest event-volume peer: Latex Patient Examination Glove (10 report gap)

Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear sits #393 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,995 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 96.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+65.8 pp)
  • MALF 1.3% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-63.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 61% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 60% of location-tagged rows .

Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear carries 2,995 MAUDE reports, ranked #393 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Injury 2,882 (96.2%)
Other 44 (1.5%)
Malfunction 40 (1.3%)
29 (1.0%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

Other 1,879 (43.7%)
R 978 (22.8%)
Required Intervention 840 (19.5%)
O 175 (4.1%)
S 137 (3.2%)
113 (2.6%)
Hospitalization 90 (2.1%)
Disability 72 (1.7%)
H 11 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 936
No Apparent Adverse Event 339
Insufficient Information 118
Patient-Device Incompatibility 28
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 16
Defective Device 12
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 11
Use of Device Problem 11
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 6
Fitting Problem 6
Material Split, Cut or Torn 6
Microbial Contamination of Device 5
Nonstandard Device 5
Scratched Material 5
Torn Material 5
Break 4
Difficult to Remove 4
Material Integrity Problem 4
Patient Device Interaction Problem 4
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 3

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 3
94
1994: 14
95
1995: 12
96
1996: 5
97
1997: 9
98
1998: 3
99
1999: 5
00
2000: 9
01
2001: 14
02
2002: 38
03
2003: 51
04
2004: 96
05
2005: 72
06
2006: 97
07
2007: 68
08
2008: 42
09
2009: 56
10
2010: 108
11
2011: 155
12
2012: 181
13
2013: 172
14
2014: 111
15
2015: 143
16
2016: 220
17
2017: 215
18
2018: 195
19
2019: 189
20
2020: 107
21
2021: 103
22
2022: 82
23
2023: 118
24
2024: 163
25
2025: 116
26
2026: 23

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Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

1,784 (59.6%)
I 1,032 (34.5%)
NO INFORMATION 54 (1.8%)
HOME 51 (1.7%)
UNKNOWN 51 (1.7%)
INVALID DATA 10 (0.3%)
HOSPITAL 6 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 3 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.1%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)
PUBLIC VENUE 1 (0.0%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.