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Advantages of polarisation

Michelle Lloyd-Bibb explains how Seiko’s new lens technology opens up a world of options for eye care

Practitioner and patient exper

Practitioner and patient experience with a silicone hydrogel, daily disposable contact lens

David Webley and Mailie Fournier take a look at findings from a recent survey ...

In focus: Can light management grow the contact lens business?

Johnson and Johnson Vision hopes to create a new contact lens category with its ...

Cantor wins loyalty in specialist CL market

Cantor & Nissel has carved its own niche as a manufacturer of specialist lenses ...

Telling tales of torics

Optician invited contact lens companies to take part in a product round-up and ...

CooperVision: Summit to think about

Fitting wearers with the healthiest contact lens option is what everybody wants ...

Finding your range: multifocal contact lens round-up

Sean Rai-Roche invited contact lens companies to submit their choice of ...

Myopia control: Making an impact

Bill Harvey looks at the results of new data from a trial of the CooperVision ...

Lens waste: Indecent disposal

David Wilson explores how contact lenses slip into sewers and fuel the ...

SEED’s manufacturing facility at Leighton Buzzard

Sowing the seed for growth

The boss of Japanese contact lens firm SEED paid a visit to Leighton Buzzard ...

Optician Awards 2018: CL Product of the Year

The runaway winner of this year’s Contact Lens Product of the Year category was ...

Linking speciality contact lenses

Linking speciality CLs

Contact lens material maker Contamac is looking to educate and inform the public, practitioners and manufacturers using a new web portal, Chris Bennett finds out why

Contact lenses: Introducing aloe vera

Introducing aloe vera

Elena Ruiz introduces a multipurpose solution for conventional and silicone hydrogel materials which includes aloe vera as an anti-irritant

Making contact lens moulds – how do they do it?

Contact lens moulds

Optician speaks to Nigel Flowers about the process and the importance of precision and quality in contact lens moulding

Checking the fit at a No 7 training session

Hybrid lenses: The best of both worlds?

Drop out from contact lens wear continues to be a problem so everything that helps patients stay in lenses is worth consideration. Chris Bennett asks if hybrid contact lenses can help by offering the advantages of both hard and soft lenses

The trends in UK contact lens prescribing 2017

Contact lens prescribing

Now in its 22nd year, Professor Philip Morgan reports on the 2017 Eurolens Research survey of UK contact lens prescribing

Interview: George Sarrouf, founder mark’ennovy

Interview: George Sarrouf

Bespoke contact lens manufacturer mark’ennovy celebrated its 20th anniversary in May this year. Jo Gallacher visited the company’s headquarters in Madrid to talk with founder George Sarrouf

Looking at labs: Spanish ‘made to measure’ firm eyes global expansion

An eye on global expansion

With a brand new fleet of robots in the mark’ennovy lab, the contact lens manufacturer is ready to take on new markets overseas. Jo Gallacher reports

Tried and tested: Acuvue Vita

Vita is comfortable and on first wear is hardly perceptible

New daily disposable toric CL for demanding days

New daily disposable toric

A new silicone hydrogel daily disposable toric combines two unique technologies to deliver excellent comfort and clear, stable vision, with a wide parameter range. Benjamin Straker, Giovanna Olivares, Anna Sulley and David Ruston report