A method of manufacturing a contact lens, including the steps: (a) providing a manufacturing system for manufacturing contact lens mold sections that are subsequently used to mold the contact lenses, the manufacturing system comprising an injection molding assembly, and a molding component coupled to the injection molding assembly and having one or more mold section shaped cavities, wherein the injection molding assembly is coupled to a supply of thermoplastic material; (b) injecting the thermoplastic material, in a fluid state, into the mold section shaped cavity/ies; (c) allowing the thermoplastic material to cool in the cavities; (d) opening the molding component and removing therefrom the cooled and solidified mold sections; wherein, the contact lens mold section comprises a mold section body comprising an optical quality surface structured as a negative of an optical quality anterior surface of a contact lens, and a flange region circumscribing the optical quality surface (16; 17; 17'), the mold section body being structured to be operatively coupled to an additional contact lens mold section body to form a contact lens mold assembly defining a contact lens shaped cavity between the mold section body and the additional contact lens mold section body; and wherein: (i) the mold section shaped cavity includes an optic cavity portion having a lens shaped surface and an elongated cavity portion; (ii) the contact lens mold sections are made by introducing an amount of the fluid thermoplastic material using the injection molding assembly into the elongated cavity portion through an inlet, the system being structured so that the flow characteristics of the fluid thermoplastic polymeric material, upon reaching the optic portion of the mold cavity, are sufficiently flowable or fluid to provide the optical quality surface on the final mold section; and (iii) the mold section body includes an elongated region having a length extending substantially radially outwardly from the flange region to a proximal end of the elongated region, the length of the elongated region being at least as great as a diameter of the first optical quality surface; CHARACTERISED IN THAT in each mold section, the first optical quality surface substantially opposes a second optical quality surface (17;17') structured as a negative of an optical quality posterior surface of a contact lens; and the elongated region is substantially planar. (a) providing a manufacturing system for manufacturing contact lens mold sections that are subsequently used to mold the contact lenses, the manufacturing system comprising an injection molding assembly, and a molding component coupled to the injection molding assembly and having one or more mold section shaped cavities, wherein the injection molding assembly is coupled to a supply of thermoplastic material; (b) injecting the thermoplastic material, in a fluid state, into the mold section shaped cavity/ies; (c) allowing the thermoplastic material to cool in the cavities; (d) opening the molding component and removing therefrom the cooled and solidified mold sections; (i) the mold section shaped cavity includes an optic cavity portion having a lens shaped surface and an elongated cavity portion; (ii) the contact lens mold sections are made by introducing an amount of the fluid thermoplastic material using the injection molding assembly into the elongated cavity portion through an inlet, the system being structured so that the flow characteristics of the fluid thermoplastic polymeric material, upon reaching the optic portion of the mold cavity, are sufficiently flowable or fluid to provide the optical quality surface on the final mold section; and (iii) the mold section body includes an elongated region having a length extending substantially radially outwardly from the flange region to a proximal end of the elongated region, the length of the elongated region being at least as great as a diameter of the first optical quality surface; in each mold section, the first optical quality surface substantially opposes a second optical quality surface (17;17') structured as a negative of an optical quality posterior surface of a contact lens; and the elongated region is substantially planar.