Launching June 27, 2016 – In order to better protect your patients’ eyes, Essilor introduces Eye Protect System^TM, a new reference in eye health, ensuring the most comprehensive eye protection against harmful light. The Eye Protect System^TM originates from Essilor’s latest breakthrough innovation, Smart Blue Filter^TM, providing protection against harmful blue light embedded in a wide range of clear lenses in Orma, Airwear, TL16 and TL1.67.

Eye protection is not an option: Presenting Smart Blue Filter^TM

Findings about the consequences of increased exposure to harmful blue light led the Essilor R&D team in developing a revolutionary innovation that can be embedded in a clear lens: Smart Blue Filter^TM. At the core of Smart Blue Filter^TM is a unique absorption process: the molecular blend smartly absorbs the most harmful blue-violet light wavelengths and neutralizes, with specific complementary colour absorbers, the residual yellow tint that would have been perceptible because of the blue filtering. As a result, 20% of harmful blue light is filtered out while the beneficial blue-turquoise light passes through.

Definition of Eye Protect System^TM:

Only product combinations guaranteed to block at least 20% of harmful blue light and offer a minimum UV protection of E-SPF 25** can be part of the Eye Protect System™.

Thus, thanks to the new Smart Blue Filter^TM lens innovation embedding protection against harmful blue light in a clear lens combined with a Crizal^® coating offering a minimum UV protection of E-SPF 25, Essilor’s widest range of premium clear lenses will now meet the minimal conditions of protection and be referenced in the Eye Protect System.

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