PRODUCT AVAILABILITY Essilor® 360°™ lenses

A SHARPER VISION WHATEVER GAZE DIRECTION.

PRESCRIPTION RANGE

Lineis™ 1.74: -14.00 Cyl. 6.00 +10.00

Stylis® 1.67: -13.00 Cyl. 4.00 +8.00

Ormix™ 1.6: -13.00 Cyl. 4.00 +8.00

(Clear lenses and brown/grey Transition lenses)

Airwear®: -10.00 Cyl. 4.00 +8.00

(Clear lenses and brown/grey Transition lenses)

C O AT I N G :
 HIGH RESOLUTION VISION™! STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY
…FINALLY AVAILABLE TO SINGLE VISION WEARERS FOR UNSURPASSED VISION QUALITY

With the complications of modern life, the proliferation of high-tech devices, and the many
different types of activity people engage in daily, clear vision is more important than ever
before. In the quest for perfect clarity and precision, spectacle wearers are becoming
increasingly demanding with regard to lens quality.
Traditional single vision lenses generally correct central vision very effectively, but they do not always meet
wearers’ increasingly demanding needs in terms of vision quality, since some wearers still experience
blurred peripheral vision.
…thanks to the application of WAVE TECHNOLOGY™ to single
vision lenses
The Essilor® 360°™ lens is a product of Essilor physiological research,
which gave rise to a revolutionary method of lens calculation and
design known as WAVE TECHNOLOGY™.
This technological breakthrough is based on two groundbreaking innovations:
A new way of calculating lens design: the Wavefront Management System™
A new lens production process: Point-by-Point Twinning™

With the introduction of the new Essilor® 360°™ single vision lenses, patients with ametropia finally
have access to true High Resolution Vision™ over the entire surface of the lens. This means that they Available for the first time in single vision lenses,
can now benefit from optimal precision and contrast levels in all their activities, regardless of their optical functions can now be calculated for each
point on the lens.
gaze direction. The Wavefront Management System™ is based on an
analysis of the entire beam of light passing through
the pupil, rather than a single ray, regardless of the
direction of gaze.

Point-by-Point Twinning™ – innovative calculation

software patented by Essilor – is used to match
perfectly the front and back surfaces over the entire
lens, for all combinations of sphere, cylinder and
axis.

A process known as Advanced Digital Surfacing™ is then used to produce the back surface of
the lens, point-by-point, in order to optimise visual performance for all prescriptions. A high-tech
device with a diamond tip is used to attain a precision of 0.1µm.

Essilor® 360°™ - High Resolution lenses for all prescriptions

 ESSILOR® 360°™, ENHANCING PRECISION VIA TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE
REDUCING VISUAL DISTORTION IMPROVED CONTRAST SENSITIVITY

Essilor uses WAVE technology™ – now applied for the first time to single vision lenses – to take
into account during production of the lens the full range of wavefront (light propagation) distortion
and thus control previously uncontrollable optical aberrations.
This Wavefront Management System™ minimises all aberrations passing through the pupil,
including traditional aberrations (power errors and astigmatism) as well as so-called higher
order aberrations, which strongly affect image quality (particularly clarity and contrast). This
means that a more precise image is formed on the retina.
Vision quality depends on two key factors: visual acuity and contrast sensitivity.
Visual acuity is clearly crucial, but research shows that contrast sensitivity is also a decisive factor
for better vision in the real world. Patients whose ametropia has been optimally corrected may still
have detail and colour perception problems in certain everyday situations (when reading under low
light conditions or driving at night, for example).

Standard single vision Essilor® 360°™

ABER R ATION LEV E L

Essilor® 360°™ improves contrast sensitivity Essilor® 360°™
Standard single vision Essilor® 360°™ by an average of 30% Standard single vision
50%

41%
40%

30%
30%

20%
14%

10%

0%
3mm 4,5mm 6mm
Small pupil Large pupil
Pupillary diameter
Strong light conditions Low light conditions
Near vision conditions Distance vision conditions

Essilor® 360°™ is the only lens for patients with ametropia that increases the wearer’s
contrast sensitivity by 30% , on average, compared with other single vision lenses,
regardless of the degree of ametropia and light levels, thus improving their ability to:
DISTINGUISH OBJECTS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT
SEE TEXTURES AND VISUAL DETAILS
PERCEIVE COLOURS
 ESSILOR® 360°™, THE LENS FOR PATIENTS WITH ESSILOR® 360°™:
AMETROPIA WHO SEEK FAULTLESS VISUAL QUALITY A CLEAR BENEFIT FOR SPECTACLE WEARERS

The Essilor® 360°™ single vision lens is targeted towards all hard-to-please patients with
ametropia who seek the best possible visual quality for all their activities. It is particularly
recommended for strong prescriptions, those who are not completely satisfied with their
standard lenses and people who must cope with low light conditions.
We conducted double-blind testing* designed to compare the Essilor® 360°™ lens with a standard
single vision lens** (with the same refractive index, correction and anti-reflective coating).
These clinical tests proved the clear superiority of the Essilor® 360°™ lens, particularly for strong
prescriptions:

Wearer adaptation time is shorter than for standard single vision lenses.
MOUNTING RECOMMENDATIONS
Visual performance is improved for all activities, especially where peripheral vision is used.
All Essilor® 360°™ lenses are:
Essilor® 360°™ Wearers perceive a great benefit in terms of visual quality, offering such comments as “Better
engraved for immediate identification
vision” – “Crisper images” – “Comfortable vision all day long” – “Undistorted peripheral vision”
marked to facilitate mounting – “Clearer vision, immediate adaptation to glasses” and “The ability to see clearly.”

The Essilor® 360°™ lens is fitted in the same way as in an aspheric * Wearer test directed by Clinical Vision Research Australia, The University of Melbourne and Queensland University
of Technology, Brisbane, Autumn 2006, with 38 wearers aged 19 to 45 years.
single vision lens. ** Stylis Crizal Alizé lenses with an identical prescription.

HIGH RESOLUTION VISION™ IN ALL GAZE DIRECTIONS

Lens evaluation according to various criteria Essilor SV 360°

On a scale of 1 to 20 (1 = very poor / 20 = very good) Standard SV
Overall vision

18

Adaptation 16 Distance vision

14

12

10

Dynamic vision
(when the environment moves) Intermediate vision

Dynamic vision Near vision

(when the subject moves)