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Natural Touch Opaque
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eyeTopics Review Editor
 
By eyeTopics Review Editor
Published on 04/7/2006
 
Natural Touch Opaque contact lenses are made to alter the color of dark eyes. 

Natural Touch Opaque

Natural Touch Opaque contact lenses are made to alter the color of dark eyes.  CooperVision designed Natural Touch Opaque lenses to be worn for up to one year and replaced.

     

Lens Material
Natural Touch soft contact lenses are made by incorporating opaque pigment in an iris pattern between two layers of tefilcon polymer. The opaquing pigment consists of carmine, mica, and titanium dioxide.

Lens Parameters 
Diameter:13.8mm
Center Thickness: low minus lens - varies with power (e.g., -3.00D: 0.10mm)
 plus lens - varies with power (e.g., +3.00D: 0.17mm)
Base Curve:8.4, 8.7
Powers:+1.00D to -6.00D, 0.25 steps

Lens Properties
 
Specific Gravity (calculated):1.18
Refractive Index:1.43
Surface Character:Hydrophilic
Water Content:37.5% in normal saline
Light Transmittance:Hazel:  97% through clear pupil
 Sophisticated Blue:  97% through clear pupil
 Willow Green:   97% through clear pupil
 Aqua Seas:  97% through clear pupil
 Baby Blue:  97% through clear pupil
 Sultry Grey:  97% through clear pupil
Oxygen Permeability:8.4 x 10 -11 (cm 2/sec)(ml O2/ml x mm Hg) at 23 degrees C.  Fatt (boundary corrected, non-edge corrected)