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
- Active Implan…
Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing System
3,021 reports
- Dressing
Dressing, Wound, Drug
3,021 reports
- Joint
Joint, Temporomandibular, Implant
3,015 reports
- Lenses (this)
Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear
2,995 reports
- Latex Patient…
Latex Patient Examination Glove
2,985 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Elbow, Constrained, Cemented
2,976 reports
What this shows Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear carries 2,995 MAUDE reports, ranked #393 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Related Entities for Lenses, Soft Contact, Extended Wear
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
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.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (2,995 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.