CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHERS MARKET ANALYSIS

Regional Analysis

Corneal Topographers Market - Regional Insights

On the basis of Geography, corneal topographers market is segmented into North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa. North America is expected to hold dominant position in the corneal topographers market during forecast period. The U.S. has one of highest population of contact lens users in the world. According to Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2017, around 45 million people in the U.S. wear contact lenses. The average age of contact lens wearers in the U.S. is 31 years. Corneal topographers would be of maximum utility for ophthalmologist and optician with such high user base for contact lens, which in turn is expected to boost growth of the corneal topographers market in the region.

Moreover, high preference for LASIK surgeries to correct nearsightedness and farsightedness is expected to propel growth of the market. This is owing to use corneal topographer in LASIK surgeries to evaluate the extent to which corneal changes are required to be done, with the help of topographic map of cornea. According to statistics by National Eye Institute in 2010, Astigmatism— the root cause for refractive errors, affects around 1 in every 3 people and may occur in combination with near- or farsightedness.

 Asia Pacific is expected to witness a positive market growth, owing to high number of cataract patients and proportionate rise in cataract surgeries. According study published in Advanced Medical and Health Research in 2015, overall prevalence of blindness is 1.1%, the principal cause for this blindness is cataract (62.6%) which affects over 9 million people.