ciba vision

12.03.09

First of Its Kind: 30-Day Contacts

Two eye-bugged staffers try out 30-day contacts.
By Suzanne Kantra Kirschner Posted 05.03.2002 at 3:56 pm 0 Comments

"Ciba Vision has combined the peanut butter and the chocolate," says New York opthamologist Barry Farkas, referring to the company's Focus Night & Day contact lenses, the first designed for continuous 24-hour, 30-day use. The lens is a hybrid of an oxygen-permeable silicon lens (the peanut butter) and a more comfortable soft lens (the chocolate). Under Farkas' care, two Popular Science editors tested Ciba's claims.

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