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, CO (PRWEB) November 16, 2002 -- 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 1800 Jackson Street, Golden, Colo., 80401. Harper may be reached at 303-271-9644, toll-free at 1-800-537-2845. The company website is http://www.techcolors.com.
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