Lens file: Eye protect system lenses

Eye Protect System is the first embedded protection against harmful light1 in an aesthetically clear lens, offering eye care professionals the opportunity to dispense spectacle lenses which deliver protection against both UV and blue/violet visible light.

Why should we protect our eyes?

Harmful light is everywhere, mostly outdoors but also, albeit it at lower levels, indoors. The major source of light is of course the sun, emitting harmful ultraviolet (UV) and blue-violet light as well as the beneficial blue-turquoise (upon which we rely for maintenance of our diurnal metabolic body clock).

This exposure is increasing with the growth in the use of new artificial low energy lighting (LED is predicted to account for 70% of all lighting sources by 2020¹), and together these natural and artificial sources have greatly increased patients’ daily exposure to harmful light, and their eyes more vulnerable to the potential risk of cumulative tissue damage, both external or anterior and, depending on the clarity of the crystalline lens, retinal and macular.