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Emerging Trends in Contact Lens Technology
Jason Jedlicka, OD, FAAO
Emerging Trends in Soft Lens Technology
The Trend Toward Single Use Lenses
Better Materials mean better comfort and better optics / vision
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Tru Eye
More designs
Toric Designs
Multifocal Designs
The Trend Toward Silicone Hydrogels in Custom Soft Lenses
Mangofilcon A
Other versions of Definitive
The Trend Toward Better Materials in Disposable Lenses
B&L Ultra
Soft Lens Care Trends
No Care
The coming growth of Peroxide
Peroxi-Clear
4 hour disinfection
The decline of MPS
Why?
Trends in Soft Lenses for Irregular Corneas
Better materials
Should they be in Si Hy only?
Better designs
Many new designs and more coming
What is the difference in all these designs?
KC specific vs. Irregular cornea generically
Possible higher order aberration technology
Trends in Soft Lenses for Presbyopia
PV2 MF
Better Optics
Decentered Optics for line of sight correction
Specialeyes designs
Can this make a difference?
They work using “over – topography” and displacing the add zone
Translating Bifocal designs
Soft translating designs – are they possible?
Designs currently being tested
Other concepts
Daily Multifocals
Emerging Trends in GP Lens Technology
Irregular Cornea
Scleral lenses – will they last – will they displace corneal lenses eventually?
Where is the trend in terms of diameter?
New Designs
Multifocals
Torics
Higher order aberration correction
New methods of fitting
EyePrint
Molding the eye and digitizing the mold for optimal lens
fit
OCT imaging
Can this be done now?
Scleral SAG is fairly similar
Can we measure the SAG of the cornea and use this to
design our lens?
How practical? Is it useful?
Measuring Scleral topography
Eaglet – Eye
Maps 18-20 mm of the ocular surface
Can identify scleral shape issue
Presbyopia
What’s new?
Expert Progressive
Translating progressive multifocal
Multifocal Sclerals
Updates to Synergeyes Duette Progressive
Scleral Lenses for Normal Eyes – are we there yet?
Use of contact lenses in medical care / medical eye care
Monitoring health conditions
Monitoring Blood Sugar
How the “Google Lens” works
Measures glucose levels in the tear layer
Can provide measurements every one second
How close is this to use?
Monitoring IOP
How this works
How close is this to use?
Restoring “vision” with tactile stimulation
Israel’s Bar Ilan University
Smartphone like receptors that receive stimui and then
physically stimulate the eye to create “visual” signals
Drug delivery Update
Meds for treatment of ocular disease
Mass Eye and Ear Glaucoma publication
One month therapy from one lens
Lens is made of layers, medication is embedded between layers
Being studied now with Latanoprost
Allergy therapy with contact lenses