Possibilities in Production of 3D Printed Contact Lenses
Abstract
Contact lenses have been used and manufactured for decades now, but recently 3D printing technologies were introduced as a new way of production. As a rapidly developing technology, 3D printing offers new possibilities for development and advantages in the manufacturing process of lenses, due to easy customization and geometry modelling. Standard production is not leaving much space for individual demands, concerning different ophthalmic diagnoses and unique patients’ eye characteristics. In this paper, the main emphasis is on the further development of the design and characteristics of lenses fabricated by this technology that can satisfactorily overcome the drawbacks of production approaches used until now. Areas of possible improvements are significant, meeting the individual demands of patients, customizing needed parameters for better therapy, biocompatibility, the possibility to integrate different optical sensors for diagnostics, even making the smart lenses, etc. There are a ve...ry limited number of studies dealing with 3D printing and examination of printed contact lenses, which leads to the conclusion that this is the research area of the future.
Keywords:
contact lenses / 3D printing / customization / productionSource:
International Conference of Experimental and Numerical Investigations and New Technologies "CNN TECH 2022" - Book of Abstracts, 2022, 57-57Publisher:
- University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Funding / projects:
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200105 (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200105)
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Mašinski fakultetTY - CONF AU - Golubović, Zorana AU - Mitrović, Aleksandra AU - Travica, Milan PY - 2022 UR - https://machinery.mas.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/6312 AB - Contact lenses have been used and manufactured for decades now, but recently 3D printing technologies were introduced as a new way of production. As a rapidly developing technology, 3D printing offers new possibilities for development and advantages in the manufacturing process of lenses, due to easy customization and geometry modelling. Standard production is not leaving much space for individual demands, concerning different ophthalmic diagnoses and unique patients’ eye characteristics. In this paper, the main emphasis is on the further development of the design and characteristics of lenses fabricated by this technology that can satisfactorily overcome the drawbacks of production approaches used until now. Areas of possible improvements are significant, meeting the individual demands of patients, customizing needed parameters for better therapy, biocompatibility, the possibility to integrate different optical sensors for diagnostics, even making the smart lenses, etc. There are a very limited number of studies dealing with 3D printing and examination of printed contact lenses, which leads to the conclusion that this is the research area of the future. PB - University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering C3 - International Conference of Experimental and Numerical Investigations and New Technologies "CNN TECH 2022" - Book of Abstracts T1 - Possibilities in Production of 3D Printed Contact Lenses EP - 57 SP - 57 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_machinery_6312 ER -
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Golubović, Z., Mitrović, A.,& Travica, M.. (2022). Possibilities in Production of 3D Printed Contact Lenses. in International Conference of Experimental and Numerical Investigations and New Technologies "CNN TECH 2022" - Book of Abstracts University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering., 57-57. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_machinery_6312
Golubović Z, Mitrović A, Travica M. Possibilities in Production of 3D Printed Contact Lenses. in International Conference of Experimental and Numerical Investigations and New Technologies "CNN TECH 2022" - Book of Abstracts. 2022;:57-57. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_machinery_6312 .
Golubović, Zorana, Mitrović, Aleksandra, Travica, Milan, "Possibilities in Production of 3D Printed Contact Lenses" in International Conference of Experimental and Numerical Investigations and New Technologies "CNN TECH 2022" - Book of Abstracts (2022):57-57, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_machinery_6312 .