Contact lens insertion tool

A tool for viscously engaging a contact lens bathed in lens fluid on a distal end of said tool and for placing the contact lens in intimate contact with an eye of a contact lens user, wherein said contact lens includes a concave surface which contacts the eye of the user and a convex surface, said convex surface having a surface area, said tool comprising:

• an elongated handle section having a first end and a second end and extending in a first direction;
• a lens supporting section having a first end and a second end, and extending from said handle section second end at said lens supporting section first end in a second direction which is at an angle with respect to said handle section;
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• said lens supporting section second end defining a land area having a surface area that is smaller than the surface area of said contact lens convex surface, and said land area being a substantially planar nondeformable surface without a hole for nesting the contact lens therein, wherein the convex surface of the contact lens is adhered to the land area of said tool due to the adhesion between the land area and the convex surface of the contact lens produced by the lens fluid;
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• wherein the adhesion between the concave surface of the contact lens and the eye of the user, due to the greater surface area under adhesion, is greater than the adhesion between the convex surface of the contact lens and the land area of said tool, due to the lesser surface area under adhesion.