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State-of-the-Art Contact Lenses Made from Silicone-Hydrogel Polymers Allow for ‘Extended Wear’ and Are Expected to Represent More Than Two-Thirds of U.S. Soft Contact Lens Sales by 2009*: Scale-up manufacturing innovations to be presented today at American Chemical Society (ACS) annual meeting, Boston ”Silicone-hydrogel polymers are making extended-wear contact lenses a reality and dramatically expanding the worldwide market for contact lenses.” Robert S. (Bob) Ward, CEO, Polymer Technology Group (PTG)
Posted by admin in Polymer News, tags: 2009, Allow, American, Annual, at, Boston, Chemical, Contact, dramatically, expanding, expected, extended, extendedwear, for, from, Group, innovations, lens, Lenses, made, Making, Manufacturing, Market, Meeting, more, Polymer, Polymers, presented, reality, Represent, Robert, Sales, Scaleup, SiliconeHydrogel, Society, Soft, StateoftheArt, technology, than, today, TwoThirds, U.S., Ward, Wear, WorldwideBERKELEY, Calif. (PRWEB) August 20, 2007 ????Silicone hydrogels make possible a new generation of ‘super-permeable’ contact lenses that can transmit unprecedented amounts of oxygen to the cornea and, in some cases, enable 30 consecutive days of ‘extended wear’ without removal. “Silicone-hydrogel contact lenses represent a breakthrough over traditional hydrogel soft contact lenses, because silicone permits so much more oxygen to pass through the lens, which is essential for a healthy cornea,” said Bob Ward. “In fact, these next-generation lenses allow six or seven times more oxygen to permeate than previous contact lenses, which is why they are becoming very popular with both wearers…. Click Here to Read More
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