Key takeaways:
- The lenses lower higher-order aberrations by way of customized inverse aberrations utilized to the lens.
- Lens match is customizable via proprietary Zenlens applied sciences.
Bausch + Lomb introduced the U.S. launch of Zenlens Chroma HOA scleral contact lenses, designed to scale back signs resembling halos and glare and proper superior higher-order aberrations, in line with a press launch.
“Utilizing Zenlens Chroma HOA customized expertise, the distinctive higher-order aberrations of every affected person are measured and corrected on the entrance floor of the stable-fitting scleral lens,” Jason Jedlicka, OD, chief of cornea and call lens service and scientific professor at Indiana College Faculty of Optometry and a marketing consultant to Bausch + Lomb, informed Healio.
“This strategy can rework a affected person’s imaginative and prescient — for example, bettering from 20/30 with a regular fuel permeable lens to twenty/20 imaginative and prescient with this tradition HOA-corrected lens,” Jedlicka mentioned. “It affords sufferers with irregular corneas the chance to realize improved imaginative and prescient, reasonably than settling for what was beforehand thought of ‘fairly good.’”
The lenses lower higher-order aberrations via the usage of customized inverse aberrations utilized to the entrance a part of the lens. The match of the lens could be personalized utilizing Zenlens’ SmartCurve expertise, which permits for simplified scleral becoming, in addition to Bi-Elevation expertise, which eases scleral alignment and reduces lens decentration, chamber fogging, lens impingement and conjunctival impression rings, in line with the Zenlens web site.
“Zenlens Chroma HOA is a high-quality, customizable lens that fills a important hole in scleral lens imaginative and prescient correction, particularly for sufferers with complicated corneal irregularities,” Yang Yang, president, international imaginative and prescient care, Bausch + Lomb, mentioned within the launch. “Eye care professionals within the U.S. now have a brand new answer for sufferers that beforehand had restricted choices to enhance imaginative and prescient high quality.”
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Jason Jedlicka, OD, could be reached at jajedlic@iu.edu.
