Professor Otto Wichterle, had the greatest influence on contact lenses since the second world war. Wichterle tried to make contact lenses in a mold using HEMA (hydroxyethylmethacrylate), developed the spin casting process, the first effective production method for soft contact lenses. He was born in Prostejov, Northern Moravia, and after a sickly childhood wanted to [...]
Contact Lens History
How Contact Lenses are Manufactured
Contact lenses can be manufactured in a variety of ways. The following video shows the various steps from lathe, to polish, to sterilization in making a contact lens. Although this video is quite old it still gives you a good idea about the different steps involved in making contact lenses. Today contact lenses are [...]
Bausch & Lomb pays out more than $250 million in lawsuits
Bausch & Lomb the manufactures of the contact lens cleaner ReNu with MoistureLoc has quietly been settled almost 600 lawsuits costing the company ~$250 million. Over 700 contact lens wearers were affected by a dangerous infection that eluded Bausch & Lomb disinfecting process which resulted in a world wide recall in recall in May 2006. [...]
Houston Researchers Create Custom Contact Lenses
University of Houston’s College of Optometry Researchers say they have created custom-made contact lenses for people with higher-order aberrated vision. Higher-order aberration vision is a distortion acquired by a wavefront of light when it passes through an eye with irregularities of its refractive components (aqueous humor, crystalline lens, tear film, cornea, and vitreous humor). While [...]
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