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The ChromaGen v2.0 Haploscopic System & Color Discrimination Enhancement Soft Contact Lenses are indicated for daily wear to enhance color discrimination in patients with protan or deutan (red-green) color vision deficiencies. The lens may also be prescribed for the correction of refractive ametropia (myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism) in aphakic and not aphakic persons with non-diseased eyes. The lenses are disinfected using a hydrogen peroxide lens care system only and are available in a frequent replacement program.

The ChromaGen v2.0 Color Discrimination Enhancement filters are designed specifically to improve discrimination between colors that are normally confused by people with protan or deutan (red-green) color vision deficiencies. The ChromaGen v20 Color Discrimination Enhancement Soft Contact Lenses are a range of soft contact lenses with precision tinted pupils of varying hue and saturation which, when used monocular and binocularly, have been shown to be of use in patients with defective color vision. Use of this product may enhance the discrimination of certain colors and may reduce the discrimination of certain colors. This device in not a cure for color vision deficiencies or colorblindness. The ChromaGen v2.0 Color Discrimination Enhancement Soft Contact Lenses are tinted with FDA "listed" color additives. The color additives are used in amounts not to exceed the minimum reasonably required to accomplish the intended coloring effect. As part of the manufacturing process, the lens containing the color additives are thoroughly washed to remove unbound reactive color additives. The manufacturing process alters and/or changes the specifications to the clear version of a contact lens by affixing a listed reactive on that portion of the anterior (front) surface of the lens that corresponds to the iris. The ChromaGen v2.0 Color Discrimination Enhancement Soft Contact Lenses are tinted to the eyecare professional instructions. The ChromaGen color additive effect is formed by reacting one or more of the reactive color additives listed in this paragraph with (poly hydroxyethy) methacrylate). The reactive color additives that may be used either alone or in combination are: reactive black 5, reactive blue 21, reactive blue 19, reactive blue 4, reactive blue 163, reactive red 11, reactive red 180, reactive yellow 15, reactive yellow 86, or reactive orange 78. The color additives used are not removed by lens handling or approved cleaning/disinfecting procedures. The ChromaGen v2.0 Haploscopic System & Color Discrimination Enhancement Soft Contact Lenses tinting process does not alter the optical and/or performance characteristics of the finished tinted soft contact lens.