Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

A study reporting on the effect of various contact lenses and lens care solution combinations on comfort and adverse events found that those pairings receiving the best comfort ratings did not necessarily have a favorable adverse event rate.

Adlens, which develops and commercializes easily adjusted, variable focus lenses, announced that it has opened a new branch in China, Adlens (Shanghai) Trading Co. Ltd., according to a company press release.

A team of U.S. and Swiss researchers has created a slim, telescopic contact lens that can switch between normal and magnified vision. With refinements, the system could offer age-related macular degeneration patients a relatively unobtrusive way to enhance their vision, according to a press release from the Optical Society.

SAN DIEGO – Participants in a roundtable discussion held here at Optometry’s Meeting offered tips on prescribing eyeglasses to children.

Consumers of eyewear have maintained their purchasing habits over the past year despite the state of the economy in the U.S., according to a Vision Council press release.

SAN DIEGO – At Optometry’s Meeting, Tomey announced its release of two new products: RT-7000 auto ref topographer and EM-3000 specular microscope. The RT-7000 possesses three functions – refractometer, keratometer and topographer – in one instrument. Senior citizens and children can be tested with ease because the seat no longer has to be moved for the three different measurements. The capability to measure the level of corneal irregular astigmatism expands the functions of the keratometer with its indices of Kerato-Asymmetry Index (KAI) and Kerato-Regularity Index (KRI). The corneal topographer contains a tear stability analysis system (TSAS) mode for dry eye, various color maps, contact lens fitting simulation and a corneal eccentricity index (CEI) for orthokeratology lenses. The EM-3000 specular microscope with corneal endothelium photographing and automatic analysis has also been released. This new specular microscope has serial photographing of 15 shots, wide photographing range of 0.25 x 0.54 mm, seven capturing positions, manual photographing when automatic photographing is difficult, various display functions, automatic analysis of corneal endothelium cells and a new dark area analysis.

SAN DIEGO – Transitions Optical Inc. announced here at Optometry’s Meeting that information on adaptive lens technology is now available on the company’s Facebook page under a table titled, “Tech Talk.”

SAN DIEGO – “We are at the point of what portends to be the golden year of contact lenses,” Randall Fuerst, OD, told attendees of the American Optometric Association Contact Lens and Cornea Section luncheon.

SAN DIEGO – “We are at the point of what portends to be the golden year of contact lenses,” Randall Fuerst, OD, told attendees of the American Optometric Association Contact Lens and Cornea Section luncheon.

SAN DIEGO – Two studies conducted by Bausch + Lomb indicated patients were satisfied with the company’s Biotrue contact lens solution, a company executive told Primary Care Optometry News here at Optometry’s Meeting.