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  • 2022 Event Calendar
  • Museum Collection
    • Scleral Lenses
    • Vintage Scleral Lens videos
    • Corneal Lenses
      • Kevin Tuohy
      • Heinrich Wohlk
      • George H. Butterfield
    • Soft Lenses
      • Otto Wichterle
    • Silicone Lenses
    • Tinted Special Use Lenses
    • Lens Care
    • Instrumentation
      • B+L Slit Lamp
      • Haag-Streit Slit Lamp
      • Clement Clarke
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  • About Us
    • Board of Directors
      • Patrick Caroline, FAAO
      • Craig Norman, FCLSA
      • Beth Kinoshita, OD, FAAO
      • Joe Barr, OD, FAAO
      • Don Ezekiel, AM., Dip. Opt (WA), FAAO
      • Roy Wesley, OD
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Soft Contact Lenses

Otto Wichterle from Czechoslovakia is often given credit as the "father of  soft contact lenses" but many others played important roles as well. Maurice Seiderman, Don Brucker, Seymour Marco and others helped immensely to move this field along in its early stages. Learn about three products developed in the early stages of soft lenses in the 1960's and 1970's.

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