hey what's up dr joseph allen here from the dr eye health show and today we're talking
about the best contact lenses in 2022. in fact we're changing things up a little bit from our
previous videos and reviews about the best contact lenses instead of just talking about the best
daily contact lenses we have to acknowledge that there's a lot of advancements in different contact
lens technologies that aren't just in daily lenses anymore so today we're gonna change
it up and we're gonna be giving out best contact lens awards in 2022 to different subject matters
yes we'll talk about daily lenses but we'll also feature monthly contact lenses astigmatism dry eye
lots of different topics now as always if you've ever seen any of my review videos this
video is not sponsored in any way all of the rankings here are based on my experience as a
contact lens wearer and a prescriber and fitting contact lenses here in the clinic for many years
and a big thing about today is we are going to be featuring different lens technologies
and advancements in contact lens technology as not only what we've seen in the past but going forward
into the future and i really just want to highlight both the technological achievements
that these companies are making but also as how they benefit you as a consumer and possibly wearer
now as always if you're watching this and you're thinking hey that's a contact lens i've never
heard of i want to try that keep in mind when you talk to your eye care provider everybody's
eyes are shaped a little bit differently and we all have different prescriptions for each eye
so not all contact lenses we're talking about here you're going to have the same experience
that i have wearing them or as another person has wearing them but no matter what it's always
a good idea to ask your eye care professional what might be best for you and if it's something
that they would recommend so for our first category we're going to start off with the best
daily soft disposable contact lens in 2022 and that will go too drum roll please
that will go to the Bausch and Lomb infuse daily disposable contact lens depending on
where you live maybe also known as the Bausch and Lomb ultra one day and i'm giving this
award to Bausch and Lomb because they have done immense amount of research in applying
knowledge from the dry eye workshop or do's to publications in our knowledge of how the tear film
on the surface of the eye is changed with contact lens wear and they found a way to literally infuse
the lens with different electrolytes proteins and stabilizers that release out of the lens
into your tear film to help stabilize your tears and prevent dryness symptoms and all of that is
applied onto a silicone hydrogel lens which has a high oxygen transmissibility which means it's
a very healthy lens for the surface of the eye now with a lot of the lenses that we're talking
about here today i have done more in-depth reviews about them including the Bausch and Lomb infused
lens if you do want to check out those videos just to learn a little bit more i'll put links to those
videos in the youtube description below so you can find them easily and i'll also come back and try
to put a link to those videos specifically in the youtube card above but again thanks
for this huge technological achievement bachelor fuse you're our best daily contact lens of 2022.
congrats now for the next category we're going to go over the best monthly contact lens in 2022 and
that award is going to the Alcon total 30 lens now i've been offering the Alcon total 30 lens
for about a year now and the reason we're giving this award to the total 30s because it does have
some really unique properties especially in a monthly kind of design now it is a monthly
so people who are wearing this are going to be wearing it throughout the day they're going to
take it out and clean it at nighttime it is not approved for overnight or extended wear
and so then they put it in again the next morning now what is so special about the total 30 lens
is that its manufacturer from the company called Alcon they also own what is called the daily total
one lens which when they invented the total one lens it completely reimagined how contact lenses
were made and i've done i've mentioned this in a couple other videos before but with that lens
it is a water gradient lens so it's able to be plastic toward the middle of the lens and then
gradually becomes more water toward the outside and what Alcon did is they took that knowledge and
they've applied it to other lens designs including the precision daily lens and then now over to the
total 30 lens which with this lens it's roughly about 55 plastic in the middle and then becomes
nearly 100 water on the outside of the lenses and with this design it basically removes any sort of
abrasive movement of your eyelids rubbing against that contact lens and many people just say they
cannot feel them at all also alongside this they did apply some new stabilizers to the contact
lens which help reduce any sort of deposits and bacteria from clinging onto that lens and being
carried forward day to day which is a problem that we often do run into and see with contact
lenses that people are cleaning at nighttime and trying to wear for 30 days it's just more likely
that proteins and bacteria are going to stick onto that lens and there is one other cool thing
about the total 30 lens many of the new contact lenses that are being designed do also incorporate
uv light protection but the total 30 lens goes a little bit beyond that blocking out high energy
visible wavelengths of light that means it does block above the 400 nanometer mark going up to
about 450 nanometers filtering out somewhere in the 35 percent range of those wavelengths of light
which if you know very much about my videos going over blue light those are largely in that same
wavelengths but just due to a lot of the confusion and misconceptions about blue light that have gone
on in the media uh it seems like they've largely tried to ignore or try to change the language
and not say that it blocks blue light so the technical term is that it blocks out high energy
visible light but the fact that it is one of the first lenses that have gone beyond just
blocking out straight uv light this is pretty incredible so again congratulations best monthly
contact lens of 2022 the Alcon total 30. now for the best two-week contact lens of 2022
well two-week lenses are largely being phased out and there's only real one lens that's left
and that's the Acuvue oasis lens if you haven't seen my review about the activity oasis and my
personal feelings about it i do have that video i encourage you to check it out otherwise that's
all i'm going to really say about that one but active oasis congrats our next category is the
best contact lens for astigmatism in 2022 and this award is going to be going to the Alcon
daily total one for astigmatism now as we've talked about the daily total one already it's been
out for some time but it's only been available in a spherical then they came out with a multifocal
and it's we've been promised this astigmatism lens for far too long but finally it is out and
i'm seeing great success with it with astigmatism lenses it's always a challenge for manufacturers
to not just give excellent vision but to have stability in a lens and with their new design
being that it is a water gradient lens it does still have excellent stability with
their astigmatism lens offering not just great comfort and great health benefits but also
having that stability and giving great vision so again for all of our contact lens wearers who
need astigmatism correction our award for 2022 best astigmatism lens goes to the daily total one
for astigmatism next category up is that of best contact lenses for beginners and this award is
going to be handed to the AlCon precision lens now this lens i've honestly been using for about the
last two and a half years both personally wearing them as well as prescribing it for patients
and one of the reasons why we're handling this to the best contact lenses for beginners
is because the lens has a great modulus design in that when you're learning how to put contact
lenses in it's really important that you're able to tell if that lens is inside out or not
and having a good modulus and a contact lens means it holds its shape and it's easier to tell
if it's in the right way or if it's in the wrong way and i've personally just seen a
lot of great success both as patients being able to handle them putting them in taking them out
but also because it is made again with that similar Alcon total one design where they are
very comfortable leading to more water on the edge i just find for patients first putting in that
lens i want them to have a good experience i don't want them to put it in and feel like uh this this
lens is really dry and irritating so i've just had really good success with the precision lens so
congrats alcon you're doing a great job now moving on to the best multi-focal contact lens
of 2022 and this award is going to be going to the Acuvu multifocal lenses with pupil optimized
design now this is really more of a whole family of lenses as the Acuvue company through johnson
and johnson is starting to kind of incorporate this design in all of their multifocal lenses but
the reason they are getting this award this year is because of their pupil optimized design if you
know anything about multifocal contact lenses they largely work because of your pupil size
which usually does change based on somebody's age and these lenses incorporate a cool design that
changes based on somebody's refraction and their age however for this topic i did want to throw in
some honorable mentions namely the Bausch & Lomb presbyopia lens for astigmatism this lens actually
came out several years past however for them to come out with a presbyopia lens that also corrects
for astigmatism and in that specific class they still in my opinion are the leader there so again
want to throw that honorable mention otherwise congrats to both johnson and johnson and Bausch
and Lomb for their achievement next up is that of the best colored contact lens of 2022 and this is
a difficult category because colored lenses the technology in them has always been a bit limited
and we're not seeing new colored lenses come out for some time the last big achievement for colored
lenses and still in my opinion is my go-to for colored lenses for patients is that of the alcon
air optics colors if you've never heard of the air optics colors they come in more bold but still
natural looking colored lenses that are great for people with dark eyes or light colored eyes they
are built around the air optics technology for a monthly lens so these are lenses that
have a higher oxygen transmissibility and are fairly healthy to be wearing on the eye and
can be then cleaned and used repeatedly for up to 30 days and from an eye care professional
standpoint the fact that we have a colored lens that works for many different types of eyes
and is something that's healthy for people to wear that right there is really why they're getting
this award i did want to take a moment just to call out some facts about colored lenses because
if you search around on the internet you'll find a lot of companies that are selling and marketing
colored contact lenses and unfortunately most of them that are out there have a very low oxygen
transmissibility and are largely based off of technology that is from the 1960s to the 1980s
and that's the reason why most eye doctors do not recommend wearing those types of colored lenses
but you can still get custom fit specialty colored lenses even like red contact lenses
but i strongly encourage that you talk to your local eye care provider because they can get them
custom made even with high prescriptions getting as high as plus 30 or minus 30 so again talk
to your eye doctor if you're really looking for custom colored lenses otherwise for people who are
looking for cosmetic colored lenses and are able to fit into an air optics colors those are still
been the best for probably the last 10 years or so but who knows maybe we'll see some advancements
going in the future next up the best value lens and this is kind of a cool one because i know
hey contact lenses can get a little bit spendy and not everybody necessarily has the budget to fork
over for one of the more premium contact lenses out there so for our value lens this goes to a
company called iris now if you've never heard of iris contact lenses before these are a single-use
daily contact lens and have a completely new kind of design for the comfort wetting agent on these
lenses and i've had a chance to use them and i do find them quite comfortable and for coming
in at a price that's sometimes even a quarter of the asking price of many of the other lenses
these again for a daily lens is just hard to beat so for value lenses definitely going with iris
the only side comment i would throw in here about iris is that they can be difficult to find they
are a newer company and they are growing so if you are a consumer thinking hey i would love
to look for that lens you may have to call around to different eye clinics to see who has that lens
and who's able to prescribe that for you but for a new company that's making a daily lens that's
comfortable and convenient iris seems to be the way to go our next award goes to our biggest bust
of a contact lens and it sounds weird to be handing out an award for somebody who
basically has been kind of just making some of the worst lenses out there right now and
that's going to be yes you probably guessed it hubble if you haven't heard of hubble contact
lenses they have not received good press in this last year and if you want to know more
about that specifically i'll put links to the kind of the news reports about what hubble's been going
through but you can also check out my personal review i did on hubble about one or two years
ago but who knows hopefully now maybe their legal troubles will be over they'll be able to change
their business model and maybe even come out with a healthier better lens and we'll see hubble rise
who knows now our award for best contact lens 2022 for myopia management goes to the Coopervision
my site lens now there is a caveat of the fact that they are the only soft contact lens that's
fda approved for children ages 8 to 12 for myopia management specifically but the fact
that they did design a lens that's a soft daily contact lens that is comfortable and easy to wear
for young kids and did the studies to show that it was able to reduce myopia or nearsightedness
development by up to 50 percent it's pretty significant and so congratulations supervision
for your my site lens of course an honorable mention goes to basically every ortho k contact
lens company that specifically designs their lenses for myopia control or myopia management if
you've never heard of ortho k lenses i do have a video going over more in detail about those lenses
in that lens technology and again i'll put that in the youtube description below and now finally for
our award for best contact lenses in 2022 and this is going to our rising star award which is going
to be going to the johnson and johnson Theravision if you haven't heard of johnson and johnson's
Theravision contact lenses these are newly designed lenses that include an antihistamine
agent that is baked into that contact lens so it's going to be releasing an anti-allergy eye
drop basically onto your eye while wearing these contacts now i don't have access to this lens yet
i've personally never tried it or fit it but we did get a press release coming out earlier
this year that they are coming and again it's just exciting to see these new advancements in
contact lenses that we're able to incorporate not just wetting agents we're incorporating new like
tear film stabilizers but now even medications that can be leaching out of the contact lens
and directly kind of help and treat different conditions so eye health question of the day let
us know in the comments what contact lenses have you tried which are your favorite were there any
awards that surprised you and just overall your thoughts about contact lenses and the future of
where they're going next up if you want to know more about specialty contact lenses that you
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