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COOPERVISION CooperVision Aspect House Hamble Lane Hamble Southampton UK, SO31 4NH Orders:
Telephone (0870) 9000 055 Fax
(0870) 9000 056 Enquiries: Telephone (0870) 9000 055 Fax (0870) 9000 056 E-Mail:
enquiries@aspect-vision.co.uk
CooperVision is the world’s fastest growing specialist
contact lens manufacturer, with core products offering differentiated
features such as novel materials and lens design. New to the CooperVision range are the Proclear lenses,
which sit alongside the successful frequency 55 Aspheric, Frequency XCEL
Toric and Frequency Colors The addition of Proclear further strengthens the
CooperVision philosophy of providing the practitioner with added value and
differentiated products to help them meet the needs of each individual
patient. The products also help build patient loyalty and patient retention
through their unique benefits. In addition to these products CooperVision also has a
broad portfolio, which now includes the Hydron lenses. PRESS RELEASE
CooperVision provide optical practitioners with a helping
hand
<Date
of issue> CooperVision
has announced that it is to continue providing practitioners and optometry
students worldwide with the ‘Efron Grading Scales for Contact Lens
Complications’ to assist with accurate record keeping. The
Efron Grading Scales provide a standard clinical reference for describing the
severity of contact lens complications.
Professor Nathan Efron, international lecturer in the field of the ocular
response to contact lens wear and author of over 500 scientific works,
developed the unique scales. They
provide practitioners with a simple method of ocular condition grading, against which any future tissue
change may be assessed and therefore enabling choices as to the best course
of action. The 16
sets of grading images cover the key anterior ocular complications of contact
lens wear. The conditions are
illustrated in five stages of increasing severity from 0 to 4, with ‘traffic
light’ colour banding from green (normal) to red (severe) - providing a
simple and convenient aid for the optical professional. John
Rogers, Professional Services Manager for CooperVision said: “This pioneering
grading scale has been developed to give accurate references to particular
conditions and since its launch the scales have been well received by both
students and practitioners. The use
of painted images to show the conditions keeps all other factors constant and
the precise level of severity can be depicted with greater clarity than with
photographic references. “We are
all aware of the side effects that non-compliant contact lens wearers can
experience. As a major soft lens manufacturer we are pleased to be
able to provide the grading scales as
part of our continuing support for
the profession. The charts are
distributed to universities, colleges and practitioners as part of
CooperVision’s professional and educational service programme. ” To obtain
a free copy of the grading scale, in A1 poster size or as an A4 reference
card, write to Efron Grading Scales, Professional Services Department,
CooperVision, Aspect House, Hamble Lane, Hamble, Southampton SO31 4NH or
email:
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