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2. List of soft contact lens materials - Wikipedia

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   In the US market, soft contact lenses are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. [2] The American Optometric Association published a contact lens comparison chart called Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Types of Contact Lenses on the differences between them. [3] These include: soft contact lenses; rigid gas-permeable (RGP ...

3. Acuvue - Wikipedia

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   Acuvue lenses got their start at Frontier Contact Lens Company, founded in Buffalo, New York in 1959 by Dr. Allen Isen, George Sitterle, and Dr. William Feinbloom. [2] Its early growth was attributed to its highly successful toric lens.

4. Contact lens - Wikipedia

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   Artist's impression of Leonardo's method for neutralizing the refractive power of the cornea. Leonardo da Vinci is frequently credited with introducing the idea of contact lenses in his 1508 Codex of the eye, Manual D, [9] wherein he described a method of directly altering corneal power by either submerging the head in a bowl of water or wearing a water-filled glass hemisphere over the eye.

5. Toric lens - Wikipedia

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   Toric lens surface as "cap" (top-right) from a torus (here with R = 1.2 r). A toric lens is a lens with different optical power and focal length in two orientations perpendicular to each other. One of the lens surfaces is shaped like a "cap" from a torus (see figure at right), and the other one is usually spherical .

6. Category:Contact lenses - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Contact lenses" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

7. The Cooper Companies - Wikipedia

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   The Cooper Companies, Inc., branded as CooperCompanies, is a global medical device company headquartered in San Ramon, California. [1] The company consists of two business units, CooperVision (CVI) which manufactures contact lenses, and CooperSurgical (CSI), which manufactures medical devices and fertility and genomic products for the women's health care market.