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Toric lens surface as a 'cap' (top right)

Torics: Top choices for astigmatic patients

Optician details some of the toric contact lenses available on the UK market today

Clariti 1 day: A continuous improvement story

Marcella McParland and Anna Sulley examine the material, lens design and ...

Looking at labs: Investing in the future

Yiannis Kotoulas reports on a recent visit to Lenstec Optical’s site in ...

More powers to play with

Optician rounds up the multifocal contact lens products that suppliers are most ...

Investing in the future

Mike Hale travels to Kent to visit PKP Optics and see the prescription house’s ...

With an eye on the road

Optician takes a look at some of the best ophthalmic lenses and sunglasses ...

Focus on the new at BCLA

Photochromic contact lenses, myopia control and extended depth of focus designs ...

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

Summit to think about

Fitting wearers with the healthiest contact lens option is what everybody wants so why doesn’t it always happen? Chris Bennett reports from CooperVision’s inaugural European Media Summit

Finding your range: multifocal contact lens round-up

Finding your range

Sean Rai-Roche invited contact lens companies to submit their choice of product, along with details and a description, to take part in Optician’s round-up

Myopia control: Making an impact

Making an impact

Bill Harvey looks at the results of new data from a trial of the CooperVision MiSight lens used in myopia control

Lens waste: Indecent disposal

David Wilson explores how contact lenses slip into sewers and fuel the micro-plastics plague in the earth’s oceans

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 last month following its acquisition of CLPL UltraVision. Joe Ayling reports

Optician Awards 2018: CL Product of the Year

CL Product of the Year

The runaway winner of this year’s Contact Lens Product of the Year category was Coopervision’s Misight 1 day. Chris Bennett sees what went into making it a winner

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