CooperVision Celebrates Success of Biofinity^® Toric

With new expanded sphere powers, Biofinity Toric offers the broadest parameter range of any silicone hydrogel toric on the market today

Fairport, N.Y., September 24, 2009—Introduced in March of this year, CooperVision’s Biofinity^® Toric monthly silicone hydrogel contact lens has quickly become one of the most successful product launches in the company’s history. This overwhelming success has led to its third parameter expansion in only five months. Biofinity Toric is now available in expanded sphere powers of +6.50D to +8.00D and -8.50D to -10.00D, four cylinder powers, and axis around the clock.   

            Biofinity Toric’s success has helped make CooperVision’s Biofinity brand one of the most complete and fastest-growing families of silicone hydrogel contact lenses on the market today.  CooperVision currently markets an aspheric lens and a toric lens under the Biofinity brand name. A Biofinity multifocal is expected to be introduced in 2010.

Since the launch of Biofinity Toric, the lens has gained significant popularity among practitioners and patients. This latest parameter expansion gives Biofinity Toric the broadest parameter range of any silicone hydrogel toric on the market, providing eye care practitioners with more options to fit their astigmatic patients in this lens.

 “I’ve fit over one hundred patients in this product and I have been very impressed with this lens,” said Steven Lutz, O.D. “I feel that Biofinity Toric is the best toric lens that has ever entered the marketplace.”

Biofinity Toric is part of the CooperVision Total Toric Solution, which offers eye care practitioners the widest range of toric products and parameters in the industry.

 “The benefits of our Aquaform^® Comfort Science™ technology combined with our expertise and reputation for bringing outstanding toric contact lenses to market has helped Biofinity Toric become a winner from day one,” said Doug Brayer, marketing manager, CooperVision. “The acceptance of this lens from both patients and practitioners alike has been phenomenal. Soon, we expect to share results of a study proving that Biofinity Toric outperforms other silicone hydrogel toric market leaders when it comes to comfort and stability.”

Biofinity Toric is FDA approved for daily and extended wear in the United States. The lenses are manufactured from comfilcon A material, with a water content of 48 percent, Dk is 128, and Dk/t is 116. The lens features a base curve of 8.7mm; a diameter of 14.5mm; sphere powers of +8.00D to -10.00D; cylinders of -0.75, -1.25, -1.75, and      -2.25; and axis from 10 degrees to 180 degrees in 10-degree steps.

About CooperVision

CooperVision, a unit of The Cooper Companies, Inc. [NYSE: COO], is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses. Dedicated to enhancing the contact lens experience for practitioners and patients, CooperVision specializes in lenses for astigmatism, presbyopia, and ocular dryness. CooperVision manufactures a full array of monthly, two-week, and daily disposable contact lenses featuring advanced materials and optics. For more information, visit .