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History of Contact Lenses Flashcards

1
Q

Who sketched the concept for contact lenses?

What year?

A

Leonardo Da Vinci

1508

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2
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Who sketched a water filled glass tube?

What year?

A

Rene Descartes

1632

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3
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Who proposed mould of the cornea?

What year?

A

Sir John Herschel

1827

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4
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Who made prosthetic eyes and produced the first wearable glass contact lenses?

A

FA Muller

1887

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5
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Who made thin glass shell for keratoconus patients?

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Eugene Kalt

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6
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Who refined the moulding techniques?

Grinding a contact lens from a mould of an eye

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Joseph Dallos

1927

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7
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What is Polymethylmethacrylate?

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PMMA

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8
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What was the issues with PMMA?

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It was not oxygen permeable

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9
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Who combined PMMA plastic with glass?

What year?

A

William Feinbloom

1936

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10
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Who developed a PMMA corneal contact lens?

What year?

A

Kevin Tuohy

1948

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11
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Who introduced soft contact lenses commercially?

What year?

A

Bausch and Lomb

1972

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12
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Who patents rigid gas permeable lenses by adding silicone to PMMA?
What year?

A

Norman Gaylord 1974

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13
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Who invented soft contact lenses?
HEMA material
Water absorbing

A

Otto Wichterle
HEMA
1956

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14
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When were soft contact lenses introduced?

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1978

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15
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When were bifocal soft contact lenses introduced?

A

1982

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16
Q

What study proves the benefits of regular lens replacement?

What year?

A

Gothenburg Study

1985

17
Q

When were coloured contact lenses introduced?

A

1987

18
Q

Who introduced the disposable Acuve contact lenses?

A

Johnson and Johnson

19
Q

Who introduced daily disposable contact lenses?

What year?

A

B&L and J&J

1995

20
Q

Who introduced the silicone hydrogel contact lenses?

A

B&L and CIBA Vision

21
Q

Who introduced the daily disposable silicon hydrogel contact lens?

A

Johnson and Johnson

22
Q

Who introduced myopia control contact lenses?

A

CooperVision

23
Q

Who introduced the contact lens “flat pack”

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