The Brien Holden Vision Institute has joined forces with a leading hybrid speciality contact lens company to provide a tailored hybrid contact lens, so eye care professionals can meet the needs of individual myopes and presbyopes, and deliver precise correction and a high degree of comfort.

Brien Holden Vision Institute has developed new optical designs that incorporate an extended depth of focus (EDOF) to provide optimal visual performance from distance to near with minimal ghosting. The EDOF lens provides a series of smooth, non-monotonic, power variations across the optic zone to deliberately manipulate multiple higher-order aberrations. The idea is to achieve an extension in depth of focus and satisfy presbyopes with low, medium and high-add requirements.

The exclusive worldwide licensing agreement between SynergEyes and the Institute will enable the manufacturing of design technologies developed by Brien Holden Vision Institute, augmenting the SynergEyes presbyopic package by offering the latest designs on the hybrid contact lens platform.

With around half of the world’s population predicted to be myopic by 2050, and with the US “baby boomer” generation now fully presbyopic, there is strong demand for technological innovation in contact lens design and manufacturing to be translated into high performance products to manage these visual deficiencies.