Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

Essilor of America announced the appointment of Millicent “Millie” Knight, OD, FAAO, FAARM, as the company’s new senior vice president for the customer development group.

CooperVision has found through a series of global studies that although consumers want the highest quality products, eye care professionals often recommend less effective contact lenses due to cost.

DENVER – Outgoing American Optometric Association President Chris Quinn, OD, in his final presidential address to the House of Delegates during Optometry’s Meeting, explained how the group is continuing to work to develop an accrediting system for postgraduate education.

DENVER – “We are interested in becoming the world leader in eye health,” Johnson & Johnson Vision’s head of contact lens research and development, David Turner, PhD, said at a company-sponsored press conference here at Optometry’s Meeting.

Bausch + Lomb has entered into a worldwide licensing agreement with Tangible Science to offer the Tangible Hydra-PEG advanced contact lens coating technology on several of its Boston gas-permeable materials and scleral lenses.

Opternative has announced a partnership with LD Vision Group that will allow the companies to provide online access for patients to renew prescriptions for contact lens and glasses.

Bausch + Lomb announced the availability of Ultra for Astigmatism contact lenses with a cylinder power of -2.75 D.

DENVER – Pearle Vision is inviting independent optometrists to turn their practices into franchises as part of its Ignite program, launched here at Optometry’s Meeting.

SynergEyes has announced a new partnership with Brien Holden Vision Institute to offer new designs on the hybrid contact lens platform to help correct myopia and presbyopia.

DENVER – The majority of optometrists would prescribe daily disposable silicone hydrogel contact lenses to most of their patients, according to a recent survey presented at Optometry’s Meeting.