Therapeutic contact lenses with special tints and hand-painted applications help people - from babies to the elderly - find relief from serious eye abnormalities.
Adventures in Color Technology, Ltd, a Colorado-based company started in 1988, has pioneered and continues to perfect a colored design process on soft contact lenses that helps correct serious vision problems and eye disfigurement from accidents or birth defects. The lenses are now being used to correct these problems: light sensitivity, double vision and low vision, albinism and aniridia (a condition in which a person has no iris color).
(Golden, Colo.) -- Until recently, colored contact lenses have been used
primarily for cosmetic purposes. But relatively new technology developed by Stan
Harper, optician and CEO of Adventures in Color Technology, Ltd., is now being
used in almost every hospital and teaching university in the United States, and
some internationally, to treat and eliminate a wide range of vision
problems.
"More than 20 million people suffer from serious untreated
vision problems, and most of those people don't realize a solution like ours is
available," Harper, former president of the Contact Lens Society of America,
says.
Roughly two percent of the population has suffered a serious eye
injury as a result of an accident, and others have vision problems as a result
of unsuccessful eye surgeries or birth defects. These people can be helped as
well. The company uses various Federal Food and Drug Administration approved
colors and designs specifically applied to soft contact lenses.
A
17-year-old Loveland, Colo., resident and accident victim Courtney Wacker
suffered from double vision and a disfigured eye after emerging from a five-week
coma. She subsequently was fitted with a lens from Adventures in Color
Technology. According to Wacker, the restoration of her normal vision and
appearance brought tears to her eyes. "Being able to see normally, without
wearing an eye patch, was the best feeling in the world," Wacker
says.
"Similarly, a fourteen year old boy born with no iris color in both
eyes and experiencing extreme light sensitivity, wished for blue eyes like his
parents have. He now has handsome blue eyes and is not sensitive to light as a
result of our company hand painting a pair of blue irises on his soft contact
lenses. They are so natural looking that few people realize these are not his
own eye color.
"In addition, several babies - as young as three months
and needing specially designed and colored lenses - have been helped, assuring
them of normal vision as they continue to develop," Harper explains.
Adventures In Color Technology, Ltd., serves eye care practitioners in
private practice throughout the world, developing colors and patterns for low
vision patients and continuing research for other retinal problems. Hopefully,
to soon help patients with macular degeneration, a debilitating loss of vision
as the macula in the back of the eye becomes less and less responsive to light
entering the eye through the pupil. This condition is the leading cause of
blindness in our older population.
The company's headquarters is located
at 1511 Washington Avenue, Golden, Colo., 80401. Harper may be reached at
303-271-9644, toll-free at 1-800-537-2845 or by e-mail at e-mail protected from
spam bots. The company website is http://www.techcolors.com.
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