UltraVision Launches New Silicone Hydrogel

Contact lens manufacturer UltraVision has announced the availability of a newly developed lathe-cut Silicone Hydrogel material.  UltraVision took the opportunity to launch various products in the new 74% water Silicone Hydrogel material at last month's Hospital Optometrists Annual Conference.  The material can be lathe-cut to individual designs and is naturally hydrophilic (i.e. requires no plasma treatment).  As a leading company in innovative new designs, UltraVision is delighted to bring six new products to the market:

• Producing KeraSoft^® in the new Silicone Hydrogel material gives Keratoconus and Post-Graft patients excellent comfort and longer wearing times.  The soft contact lens for Keratoconus and Post-Graft patients, KeraSoft^®3, has also been re-designed as a front surface aspheric prismatic toric (or Asphere) to provide greater stability of vision.  The fitting system has been improved so that trial lenses are as near as possible to the final lens specification and patients have the opportunity to wear the powered diagnostics for up to 90 days before the final prescription is established.
  
• The popular 3 monthly disposable lens HydroWave^®, is also now available in the Silicone Hydrogel material.  To further improve on this lens, another in the family of wavefront and SAM^® (Spherical Aberration Management) range of lenses, the parameters have been fully extended, making this a completely tailor-made product.
  
  
• UltraVision's Bandage, Paediatric, Aphakic and Myopic lenses are also now available in a lathe cut Silicone Hydrogel; all four of these lens types can be supplied with a prosthetic Black Pupil.

Lynn White an optometrist who recently joined UltraVision as Keratoconus Consultant, described the improvements in the KeraSoft^® design at a presentation given at the recent HOAC, at which practitioners were invited to examine the lens 'in vitro' on a member of the Keratoconus Self Help Group.  As a Post-Graft RGP wearer, the wearer had previously been unable to wear a soft contact lens for more than an hour without developing oedema in the host cornea, but could now wear the Silicone Hydrogel version for up to 12 hours a day with no problems.

For more information on the Silicone Hydrogel contact lens developments, please contact Josie Barlow, UltraVision's Clinical Services Advisor, on 0800 585115,