Biofinity Energys Review

Product: Biofinity Energys
Manufacturer: CooperVision
Type: Monthly, Spherical (not for astigmatism)
Available in: 6-pack

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The Biofinity Family

Biofinity by CooperVision is one of the leading lines of contact lenses on the market and has been for a long time. Its highly breathable material and many versions has made it a go-to contact lens brand for many optometrists and patients alike.

You can tell the success of a brand by how many different lines it has. Biofinity has now branched into 6 lines:

• Biofinity
• Biofinity Toric
• Biofinity Multifocal
• Biofinity XR
• Biofinity Toric XR
• Biofinity Energys (most recent)

The Monthly Contact Lens Revolution

Biofinity Energys is CooperVision's entry into the market of new wave monthly lenses. Between the years of 2008 and 2014, no new monthly contact lenses were developed by the contact lens manufacturers. During those years there was a big incentive for companies to produce new daily contact lens brands, so that's what they did.

What seemed like an obsession over daily contact lenses by the contact lens manufacturers caused them to take their finger off the pulse of what contact lens wearers actually wanted. When they realized that the market share of daily contact lenses wasn't really going up, and that a large majority of contact lens wearers were still looking for monthly lenses, they shifted gears.

Starting in 2014, one at a time, all the contact lens manufacturers decided to put out new monthly contact lenses. They were:

• ULTRA by Bausch + Lomb
• Acuvue Vita by Johnson & Johnson
• Air Optix plus HydraGlyde by Alcon
• Biofinity Energys by CooperVision

What's Different About Biofinity Energys

Biofinity Energys actually has something quite unique about it. It's called Digital Zone Optics. This is a feature that CooperVision developed to help alleviate the strain that accumulates in the muscles in our eyes when we spend too much time looking at digital devices.

Reason For Digital Zone Optics

A phenomenon known as Digital Eye Strain (a.k.a. accommodative strain) has been an increasing problem in the realm of eye health since the advent of smartphones, tablets, and the general shift to computers for everything we do. Digital Eye Strain happens when we look at digital devices that are close up (within arm's length) for prolonged periods of time. The muscles in our eyes can't sustain that kind of vision comfortably for long, and that's when the problems start to kick in.

To address this growing concern, the eye care industry has developed many special lens designs for glasses that can alleviate this type of strain. Examples of these are:

• EyeZen 0.4/0.6 by Essilor
• Active 5/8 by Hoya
• RelaxSee by Nikon
• Digital Lens by ZEISS

All of these lenses reduce the impact of Digital Eye Strain by providing the visual system with something called plus power. These lenses put the additional plus power in strategic places which aligns with your line of sight when you look at digital devices, but not when you're looking elsewhere.

These lenses are becoming more and more recommended by optometrists for heavy digital device users. But of course, they are all lens designs for glasses. So what are contact lens users to do?

Until Biofinity Energys, contact lens users did not have an effective tool with which to combat Digital Eye Strain. CooperVision saw this and capitalized on that opportunity by adding Digital Zone Optics to their massively successful Biofinity contact lenses.

What Digital Zone Optics Does

Digital Zone Optics applies similar principles that the digital lenses for glasses mentioned above use to reduce Digital Eye Strain. It spreads positive power throughout the surface of the contact lens so that your eyes don't have to work as hard when looking at screens. This reduces the effect of Digital Eye Strain.

This type of lens design is unique to Biofinity Energys. Whereas all of the other new wave monthly contact lenses focus on preventing the dryness that results from wearing contacts all day in front of digital devices, Biofinity Energys focuses on relaxing your eyes instead.

Downsides of Biofinity Energys

The downside to the Biofinity Energys is that CooperVision did not improve on the comfort of the lens at all. It is the exact same material as the regular Biofinity, which was launched back in 2006. Of course, the Biofinity lens material is still good, and overall it's still a quality lens. But comfort-wise, compared to ULTRA by Bausch + Lomb and Acuvue Vita by Johnson & Johnson, the Biofinity Energys just doesn't measure up.

Biofinity Energys Specifications

Property	Value
Material	comfilcon A
Water Content	48%
Oxygen Transmissibility (Dk/t)	160
Extended Wear	Daily or up to 6 nights / 7 days extended wear
Design	Digital Zone Optics and Aquaform Technology
Base Curve	8.6 mm
Diameter	14.0 mm
Sphere Power	+8.00D to −12.00D (0.50D steps after +/−6.00D)
Center Thickness	0.08 mm @ −3.00D

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