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ColorMax

Born out of more than a decade in development, ColorMax Color Vision Enhancement Lenses are changing the way color deficient people see and live in a revolutionary way. The lenses are designed to significantly improve color discrimination in color deficient users, allowing them to fulfill many occupational, leisure and educational goals, previously unattainable.

Regardless of a genetic link, color vision deficiency may also be acquired. Loss of color vision can result from conditions such as diabetes or glaucoma, or as a result of taking certain medications. In addition, environmental factors such as industrial pollutants and sunlight have been linked to colorblindness.

While the lenses do not give the wearer perfect color vision, they allow people who have trouble distinguishing colors to see differences that previously looked similar. These new color enhancement lenses also allow patients to match colors.

People with normal vision have substances in the cones of their eyes that take in light and process color. Such substances are missing or altered in people with color-deficient vision. Complete color blindness is rare; although most people can see color but have difficulty distinguishing between some colors or shades of colors.

If you are experiencing gradual or distinct changes in your color vision or clarity of vision as you grow older, you are not alone. Age related changes in the crystalline lens and retina begin as early as age 40, with clinically detectable abnormalities in color vision prevalent in 90 percent of people by age 65. ColorMax Aging Vision Enhancement Lenses are designed specifically for this age group.

The ColorMax lenses work through a new technology that alters the wavelength of colors as they enter the eye. The concept is not a new one. By selecting the right kind of filtering component that we add to the lens, we can greatly assist the eye in discriminating colors. As we modify the light that enters the retina, colors are instantly recognizable. The ColorMax lenses can be put in any frame and made to fit any corrective prescription.