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A look at the latest launches

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A CLOSER LOOK
MAKING DIGITAL BETTER

Younger Optics and Indizen Optical Technologies (IOT) have released Camber Technology, which the companies are calling a revolutionary new lens technology that combines complex curves on both surfaces of the lens to provide excellent vision correction. It was developed to improve the performance of digital progressive lenses by providing the ideal base curve in all zones of the lens.

Camber Technology utilizes a special, new lens blank with a variable base curve, which means the front surface increases in optical power from the top to the bottom of the lens blank. This provides the appropriate base curve from the distance zone to the near zone.

According to Younger Optics, wearers experience better vision in all zones compared with lenses made from single vision blanks. This includes an improved reading area that is more spacious and easier to find with the eye. In general, patients show faster adaptation, according to a wearer study. Camber lenses tend to be flatter, especially for high-plus and high-add prescriptions, so these patients will receive more cosmetically appealing lenses with easier frame selection.

A list of the optical laboratories that currently offer camber lenses is available at the website, which also explains the complex technology and users’ experiences.

INFO: camberlens.com

YOUNGER OPTICS
Camber lens technology

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COMPUTER CUSTOM

CVxpression, the newest addition to VSP Optics Group’s UNITY portfolio, is a lifestyle computer lens that is customizable to three distance options—4, 6, or 12 feet. The design incorporates Cascade technology, which unifies a unique, front-surface, variable base curve with UNITY’s newest backside free-form design.

Combined with a patient’s position-of-wear measurements, UNITY CVxpression provides intrinsic power enhancement to deliver power where it is needed most, company representatives note. A fully compensated prescription also ensures enhanced visual performance and quick patient adaptation.

The 4-foot distance lens is optimized for reading and intermediate areas; the 6-foot lens is optimized for intermediate vision beyond 4 feet; and the 12-foot design is optimized for vision beyond 6 feet.

INFO: vspopticsgroup.com

VSP OPTICS GROUP
CVxpression lenses

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NEW SOLUTION

Bausch + Lomb has introduced PeroxiClear 3 percent hydrogen peroxide cleaning and disinfecting solution. According to the company, the solution has been proven to keep contact lenses cleaner and moister for longer.

PeroxiClear solution contains Triple-Moist Technology, which helps to provide up to 20 hours of moisture. PeroxiClear provides the disinfection of a hydrogen peroxide solution, but neutralizes in only four hours, as compared to six with other peroxides, the company notes.

INFO: bausch.com

BAUSCH + LOMB
PeroxiClear 3 solution

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PURE PLUS

ZEISS has unveiled its new PureCoat PLUS anti-reflective coating, which replaces the original PureCoat AR and provides an improved hydrophobic performance and durability.

According to the company, PureCoat PLUS has a residual reflectance below 1 percent. It is also up to 50 percent more scratch-resistant than many other coatings, helping the lenses retain their clarity.

The hydrophobic performance of the original version has been improved; it now retains nearly 97 percent of its hydrophobic properties through the life of the prescription and has an even higher contact angle for easier cleaning, according to company representatives.

INFO: vision.zeiss.com

ZEISS
PureCoat PLUS

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DIGITAL FORCE

Wiley X has moved beyond simply offering Rx-able occupational and recreational sunwear with the introduction of DIGIFORCE, a precision digital lens technology designed to provide superior vision to a variety of wearers in various wearing conditions. DIGIFORCE digital Rx lenses have been designed specifically for Wiley X’s 8-base wrap frames. The lenses increase and optimize the field of vision in all directions and provide a more significant reading zone and crisper, clearer optics, according to the company.

Standard Rx lens designs in Wiley X 8-base wrap frames can cause peripheral distortion, commonly referred to as the “fishbowl effect,” but DIGIFORCE lenses matched with Wiley X frames allow the wearer’s personalized vision needs to be met.

INFO: wileyx.com

WILEY X
DIGIFORCE Rx lenses

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SEEING GREEN

Transitions Optical, Inc., and Essilor have launched the new Transitions Signature VII lenses in a graphite green color. The lenses help provide natural vision and true color perception in a variety of light conditions.

The gray-green color is iconic in eyewear, dating back to the sunglasses worn by U.S. Navy pilots. The graphite green Transitions Signature VII lenses were developed using chromatic color adaptation technology and Signature’s own Chromea7 technology, which allows the lenses to be more responsive to changes in light outdoors, enhance contrast, and get darker in higher temperatures.

The new color joins the existing brown and gray in the Transitions Signature VII offerings.

INFO: essilortransitions.com

TRANSITIONS OPTICAL, INC.
Transitions Signature VII in graphite green

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DYNAMIC DUO

The new Shamir Duo represents Shamir Insight’s first step into the bifocal market. The freeform lens offers surface continuity, eliminating the visible line and the corresponding “image jump” that are associated with flat-top bifocals, providing the patients with improved optics.

With Shamir Duo, a natural, distortion-free path is maintained as the eye moves from one vision zone to another, providing enhanced vision and comfort as well as a more aesthetically pleasing lens. Unlike flat-top bifocals, Shamir Duo is available in a selection of indexes and treatments like high-index materials as well as photochromic and polarized treatments and tints.

It is available in a 15mm fitting height in 1.5 hard resin, DLC Trivex 1.56, 1.60 SuperLite, 1.67 SuperLite, Polyplus, and 1.74 SuperLite.

INFO: shamirlens.com

SHAMIR INSIGHT
Shamir Duo

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CUSTOM SOFT

X-Cel Contacts has added the Flexlens ARC (Atypical Refractive Correction) custom soft lens to its portfolio of irregular cornea designs. The lens is manufactured at X-Cel’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Duluth, GA, allowing for quick turnaround time, quality, and consistent reproducibility, the company notes.

The Flexlens ARC is a custom soft lens design that fits like a regular toric contact lens. With no need to worry about peripheral curves or any other parameter that may complicate the fit, the Flexlens ARC is easy to fit, thus reducing chair time. It utilizes a standard back-surface fitting curve, precise axis, cylinder, and an enhanced center thickness to stabilize the correction over an aberrated cornea.

INFO: xcelcontacts.com

X-CEL CONTACTS
Flexlens ARC
Image courtesy of Edgar Davila, O.D., FIACLE, NCLE-AC, San Juan

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OASYS EXPANDS

Acuvue OASYS brand contact lenses for astigmatism are now available in more parameters, providing doctors with a range of options designed to provide coverage for 98 percent of spherical and astigmatic patients, according to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.

The parameters are being expanded to include -6.00 to +6.00 in 0.25D steps (cylinders: -0.75, -1.25, -1.75, -2.25; axis: full circle in 10° steps) and from -6.50 to -9.00 in 0.50 steps (cylinders: -0.75, -1.25, -1.75, -2.25; axis: full circle in 10° steps).

The company also noted that diagnostic lenses from Acuvue Advance brand contact lenses for astigmatism are no longer available, because, according to the company, 100 percent of patients in trials had first-fit success with Acuvue Oasys for Astigmatism.

INFO: 800-843-2020, acuvueprofessional.com

JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE
Acuvue OASYS