Method of manufacturing wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses

A method of manufacturing a silicone hydrogel contact lens, said method comprising:

• a. curing a polymerizable composition comprising at least one siloxane monomer and at least one hydrophilic vinyl-containing monomer in a contact lens mold to form a polymeric lens body;
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• b. washing and packaging the polymeric lens body to provide a silicone hydrogel contact lens having a first contact angle;
• wherein said contact lens mold comprises a molding surface coated with a hydrophilic coating comprising at least one hydrophilic polymer,
• wherein the hydrophilic coating is not solubilized by the polymerizable composition during the curing step, and
• the silicone hydrogel contact lens is substantially free of the hydrophilic polymer from the hydrophilic coating, and
• the first contact angle is lower than a second contact angle of a control silicone hydrogel contact lens cured in an uncoated, but otherwise identical, contact lens mold and manufactured using a method that is identical to the method of manufacturing the silicone hydrogel contact lens, and wherein the hydrophilic polymer is free of primary amine groups and has an average molecular weight of about 10,000 daltons to about 200,000 daltons.