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September 17, 1982
Water lens is long-wearing
New contacts developed
United Press International
NEW YORK — Contact
lenses that are mostly water can
De worn around the clock for
two weeks. W'earers sleep in
their contacts, jog or disco with-
aut jiggling or displacing them.
Authorities say the new
generation contacts hold the
promise of revolutionizing the
ttontact field.
Currently the long-wearing'
contacts most ordered by eye-
are specialists correct myopia,
bringing poor distance vision
within more normal limits.
Another of the water-containing
lenses helps astigmatism, or,
blurry vision.
Williford said the lenses cost
about $100 more than regular
contacts.He estimated average
cost at from $300 to $350, in
cluding three to eight follow-up
visits. But, extended wear con
tacts are not for everyone, due to
individual eye differences
The long-wearing lenses
started moving into the optical
mainstream in 1981 when the
Food and Drug Administration
approved two brands for gener
al use. One, Permalens, comes
from Cooper Laboratories in
Palo Alto, Calif. The second,
Hydrocurve, is from Revlon
Health Care Group.
The extended-wear contacts
from Cooper contain 71 percent
water, providing the greatest
amount of oxygen to the eye sur
face. The Hydrocurve lens con
tains 55 percent water.
Experts says the key element
in extended wear contacts is ox
ygen. Permalens, for example, is
designed to absorb water. This
allows a high oxygen flow
through the entire lens surface.
The extended-wear lenses
were not newcomers to eyecare
specialists when the FDA
approved them for general use
last year. The FDA approved
them for limited use in 1980,
mainly for men and women who
had their natural lenses,
clouded by cataract, removed.
About five percent some of
these patients cannot be fitted
with the optical lens implant, a
plastic device that takes the place
of the malfunctioning natural
lens.
For these patients the next
option is to try a contact lens.
If the contact doesn’t work,
there are special cataract glasses.
John H. Williford, vice chair
man of Cooper Laboratories in
Palo Alto, Calif, one of two
manufacturers of the longw^ar-
ing lenses, said cataract patients
have found the contacts most re
markable.
They don’t have to fiddle with
daily removal, as in the era of
old-style contacts. Some go to
the eye-care specialist every two
weeks to have an office aide or
other health care professional
remove and clean the lenses.
The Boston Consulting
Group estimates the 1982 con
tact lens market at $225 million
and projects it will grow to $500
million by 1986.
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NORTH LAKE, Wis. — Dale
Sorenson keeps a menagerie of
rancing horses bedecked with
powers and ribbons, a shaggy
ion and a dancing rabbit in his
living room.
They’re all made of wood.
Sorenson,39, buys, restores
nd sells authentic old-time
carousel animals — only one of
wo men in the nation, he says,
who have made merry-go-
rounds their full-time profes-
ii.
The former psychotherapist
ame upon his first carousel
horses in 1975, a pair from the
state of the famed Ringling
irothers.
He bought them for $165
ach and took them to the anti-
|que store he owned with his
wife, Carla.
“We put them in our shop
nd they started growing on
jme,” Sorenson said. “I sold them
both within a month, so I went
looking for an entire carousel.”
He found one in Ohio with 22
horses and two dogs, but bank
ers were not interested in loan
ing him $3,500 to buy an amuse
ment park ride.
“I went to a finance company
and borrowed on everything we
had - the refrigerator, the TV,
everything,” Sorenson said.
“The very next day I sold four of
the horses and got half of my
investment back.”
That was all it took to make
believers out of bankers, he said.
Sorenson’s most inexpensive
restored carousel animals range
from just under $2,000 for
horses to $30,000-$40,000 fear a
Dentzel lion.
The life of a carousel connois
seur has its risks, he said.
“Boy, have I been in some
seedy places — let me tell you —-
and you have to take cash, they
won’t take a check.”
He recalled one time count
ing out 35 $ 100 bills as he sat in
an old auto surrounded by car
nival workers.
The first carousel, from 17th
century France, was a wooden
device with suspended carved
horses that allowed young no
blemen to tilt with miniature
lances at golden rings.
The first American carousels
were small, Sorenson said. They
contained no more than a dozen
rough-hewn suspended horses
or swings.
With invention of the steam
engine and the electric streetcar,
carousels grew in size. They
were at the height of their popu
larity between 1880 and 1920.
Nowhere in the world were
carousel animals carved as care
fully or beautifully as in Amer
ica, Sorenson said.. He rarely
buys any made outside the Un
ited States.
The animals were carved by
fewer than a dozen American
companies, each of which de
veloped its own style. The anim
als were usually made of yellow
poplar and brass.
“They put so much more into
it than they would have had to
for an amusement park ride,” he
said. “They’re a bit of Amer
icana.”
His clients include Knott’s
Berry Farm, American Band
stand’s Dick Clark and The
House on the Rock in Spring
Green, Wis.
Sorenson said he spends ab
out 25 percent of his time travel
ing around the country to look
at carousels, plus a lot of time on
the telephone.
“I know where every carousel
is in the U.S.,” he said. “In so
many cases they are not taken
care of.
“There were many around
the turn of the century in Amer
ica. A lot of them were destroyed
by fire. Some just wore out.”
He expects his business to de
cline sharply in the future, but
he thinks he will always have a
market.
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