TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED LENS MATERIAL
Collamer: An Exclusive Material in the Visian ICL™
Collamer is a revolutionary material used exclusively in making STAAR® Surgical Company corrective lenses, including several models of the Visian ICL. Its name comes from the combination of “collagen” and “polymer”. Because it is made with collagen, Collamer is compatible with your body’s natural chemistry, and contributes to the High Definition Visian found only in the Visian ICL.

What is Collamer
The Collamer Advantage
Quality of Vision
Biocompatibility
UV Protection
Learn More about the Implantable Collamer Lens

What is Collamer?

Collamer is a 100% pure collagen copolymer material that is compatible with your body’s natural chemistry (often called “biocompatibility.”) Because of this, it is “quiet in the eye,” meaning you won’t even know it’s there!
Collamer is easy to implant because it unfolds gently and predictably in the eye.
Collamer transmits light very similarly to your natural lens because the material’s characteristics are nearly identical to the human crystalline lens ¹.
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The Collamer Advantage
Collamer offers numerous advantages over other lens materials:

Quality of Vision
Due to its unique anti-reflective properties and high water content, Collamer helps transmit light nearly identically to the human crystalline lens. This means less light is reflected within the eye, leading to sharper, clearer vision; and far fewer occurrences of glare, halos, or poor night vision associated with other lenses or corrective procedures. These are the precise qualities of High Definition Visian, available only from the Visian ICL.
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Biocompatibility
Meaning “compatible with your body’s natural chemistry,” biocompatibility is a key advantage of Collamer. The collagen in the Collamer attracts fibronectin, a substance found naturally in the eye. A layer of fibronectin forms around the lens, inhibiting white cell adhesion to the lens. This coating prevents the lens from being identified as a foreign object, and the lens remains unnoticed and “quiet in the eye” indefinitely.

What’s more, like the collagen it contains, Collamer carries a slight negative ionic charge. Proteins in the eye also carry a negative charge. As these two negative forces meet each other along the border of the Visian ICL, the charge repulsion pushes away the proteins from the lens, naturally keeping it clean and clear.
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UV Protection
Long-term exposure to UV radiation can damage the eyes; longer term or more intense exposure increase the chance of eye disorders including the development of cataracts and some retinal problems.

As an added feature, the Visian ICL advanced lens material contains a UV blocker that actually prevents harmful UVA and UVB rays from entering the eye, possibly preventing the development of UV related eye disorders.
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Learn more about Collamer, available only in the Visian ICL!
The exclusive advantages of Collamer are available only in the Visian ICL. For more information on why the Visian ICL might be the best vision correction procedure for you, contact STAAR Surgical Company today.
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