1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST features our exclusive LACREON® Technology, which provides exceptional comfort for your patients from morning to night. It permanently embeds a moisture-rich wetting agent so patients experience exceptional comfort that won’t blink away. 100% of the wetting agent is still in the lens at the end of the day, when your patients’ eyes are tired and need it most.1 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST also helps to reduce UV exposure with Class 2 UV-blocking* and is ideal for allergy sufferers.2,3 Wearers report high levels of satisfaction with the handling of 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST 4

1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST

Power ranges

 

–0.50D to –6.00D (0.25D steps)
–6.50D to –12.00D (0.50D steps)
+0.50D to +6.00D (0.25D steps)

 

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Parameters

8.5 mm base curve/14.2 mm diameter
9.0 mm base curve/14.2 mm diameter

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Wear and recommended replacement schedule

Daily wear, 1-day replacement

Lens Details

 

Lens material etafilcon A
Technology Internal wetting agent Polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) using LACREON®  Technology

Oxygen transmissibility (Dk/t):5 25.5 x 10-9
Oxygen % available to central cornea: 87%
Water content 58%

UV-blocker:*  98.8% UVB and 85.1% UVA (Class 2)
Center thickness at-3.00D (mm) 0.084

Inside-out mark Yes (123)
Visibility tint Yes

Package size 30, 90, 180 lenses
 

 

 

*All ACUVUE® Brand Contact Lenses have Class 1 or Class 2 UV-blocking to help provide protection against transmission of harmful UV radiation to the cornea and into the eye. UV-absorbing contact lenses are NOT substitutes for protective UV-absorbing eyewear such as UV-absorbing goggles or sunglasses because they do not completely cover the eye and surrounding area. UV transmission measured with -1.00D lens.

Packing solution contains boric acid and disodium tetraborate (sodium borate) to control the pH of the solution.

1. Sheardown H, Liu L and Jones L.  Chemical characterisation of 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST and 1-DAY ACUVUE® contact lenses. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2006;47: E-Abstract 2388.

2. Data on file JJVC 2002 and 2012.

3. Hayes V, Schnider C and Veys J. An evaluation of 1-day disposable contact lens wear in a population of allergy sufferers. CLAE 2003 Jun;26(2):85-93.

4. JJVC data on file 2011

5. Oxygen transmissibility at the centre of a -3.00D lens using boundary-corrected, edge-corrected Dk values. Units: (cm/sec) (ml O2/ml x mm Hg) at 35° C. Dk determined via polarographic method.

6. Oxygen flux - % available to central cornea (open eye) and compared to 100% with no lens.

Benefits

LACREON® Technology

To keep patients satisfied, the 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST family features LACREON® Technology, which provides exceptional comfort from morning to night.5,6 It employs a unique process to permanently embed a water-holding ingredient (PVP), which is not blinked away.7

Built in wetting agent

LACREON® Technology locks PVP into the lens, to help establish a stable tear film over the top of the contact lens, minimising lens discomfort.8

Talk to your patients about LACREON® Technology and show them our consumer video at: www.en.acuvuearabia.com/innovation

UV transmission graph

- 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST helps to reduce exposure to UV transmission with Class 2 UV-blocking*

- Patients are concerned about protecting their eyes as well as skin9

 

*All ACUVUE® Brand Contact Lenses have Class 1 or Class 2 UV-blocking to help provide protection against transmission of harmful UV radiation to the cornea and into the eye. UV-absorbing contact lenses are NOT substitutes for protective UV-absorbing eyewear such as UV-absorbing goggles or sunglasses because they do not completely cover the eye and surrounding area. 

1. Sheardown H, Liu L and Jones L.  Chemical characterisation of 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST and 1-DAY ACUVUE® contact lenses. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2006;47: E-Abstract 2388.

2. Data on file JJVC 2002 and 2012.

3. Hayes V, Schnider C and Veys J. An evaluation of 1-day disposable contact lens wear in a population of allergy sufferers. CLAE 2003 Jun;26(2):85-93.

4. JJVC data on file 2011

5. JJVC Data on file 2009: 1 week bilateral crossover study, 1 week wear with 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST and DAILIES® AquaComfort Plus®, N=1213. 

6. JJVC Data on file 2010; Randomised, subject-masked, bilateral, cross-over dispensing study, 1 week DW, with habitual soft toric lens wearers.  N=67; *P <0.05. 

7. Sheardown H, Liu L and Jones L.  Chemical characterisation of 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST and 1-DAY ACUVUE® contact lenses. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2006;47: E-Abstract 2388.

8. JJVC Data on file 2013.

9. JJVC Consumer Insights Survey, November 2011, online questionnaire with 18-45 year-old soft CL wearers (UK, n=400; Poland, n=300) and CL considerers (Poland, n=302).