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David Foresto
OptometrY & Advanced contact lenses
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Why this calculator is useful:
In contact lens design one of the most commonly used rules is that a change of BOZR of 0.1mm equates to a liquid lens power change of 0.5 dioptres. This is only technically true for lenses with back optic zone radii of 8.0-8.5mms. In fitting modern rigid gas permeable contact lenses, practitioners need to be aware that 0.1mm changes can sometimes require substantially more power compensation. This is often true for highly aspheric lens designs which require very steep radii to achieve adequate sagittal depth.
eg. in steepening a BOZR 5.00mm / 0.98e ICD miniscleral by 0.1mm, the practitioner must compensate the power by -1.38 dioptres.
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Convert Back Optic Zone Radius (BOZR) from millimeters to dioptres
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Calculate Power Adjustment Required to Offset RGP Lens BOZR Adjustment
Practitioner Tools
The following are tools which we have made open for use by all Optometrists, Ophthalmologists,
students and laboratories.
SCLERAL LENS Theoretical OXYGEN TRANSMISSABILITY CALCULATOR
- used to calculate the oxygen available to the cornea with variable miniscleral contact lens parameters.
Press enter after each value is altered
Boston EO - Dk 82
Boston XO - Dk 100
Boston XO2 - Dk 141
Paragon HDS100 - Dk 100
Menicon Z - Dk 163
Holden Mertz Criteria for safe daily wear Dk/t = 24
Formula derived from "Predicting estimates of oxygen transmissibility for scleral lenses"
L.Michaud et al. Contact Lens & Anterior Eye 35 (2012) 266– 271
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