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  2. List of soft contact lens materials - Wikipedia

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    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines soft contact lenses as: made of soft, flexible plastics that allow oxygen to pass through to the cornea. Soft contact lenses may be easier to adjust to and are more comfortable than rigid gas permeable lenses. Newer soft lens materials include silicone-hydrogels to provide more oxygen to your ...

  3. Contact lens - Wikipedia

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    The Czech scientists' work led to the launch of the first soft contact lenses in some countries in the 1960s and the first approval of the Soflens material by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1971. These soft lenses were soon prescribed more often than rigid ones, due to the immediate and much greater comfort (rigid lenses require a ...

  4. Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act - Wikipedia

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    An act to provide for availability of contact lens prescriptions to patients, and for other purposes. The Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (Pub. L. 108–164 (text) (PDF), 117 Stat. 2024, codified at 15 U.S.C. ch. 102 et seq.), also known as FCLCA, [citation needed] is a United States federal law that aims to improve consumer protection ...

  5. Circle contact lens - Wikipedia

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    Korean contact lens companies Geo Medical Inc. and Migwang Contact Lens [13] (operating under the brand name Clearlab in the US) have been approved by the FDA for sale in the United States. Circle lenses manufactured in Korea are under the approval and guidelines of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.

  6. Orthokeratology - Wikipedia

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    Orthokeratology lens. Orthokeratology, also referred to as Night lenses, Ortho-K, OK, Overnight Vision Correction, Corneal Refractive Therapy (CRT), Accelerated Orthokeretology, Cornea Corrective Contacts, Eccentricity Zero Molding, and Gentle Vision Shaping System (GVSS), is the use of gas-permeable contact lenses that temporarily reshape the cornea to reduce refractive errors such as myopia ...

  7. Oxygen permeability - Wikipedia

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    Oxygen permeability (OP) is a parameter of a contact lens that expresses the ability of the lens to let oxygen reach the eye by diffusion. In soft contact lenses, it is dependent on the thickness of the lens and the material of the lens, especially concerning the water content. Because of this dependence on thickness, transmissibility level ...