Sleeping With Your Contact Lenses OnIs it safe to sleep in your contacts? The answer to that question is mostly no unless you are wearing lenses specifically approved for overnight wear and are wearing them in the manner their eye-doctor advised.
In a national survey, almost half of contact lens wearers said they would like to be able to wear their [...]
Is Lasik Surgery Right For Everyone?
There are ads for LASIK surgery everywhere. Anyone who wears contacts or glasses dream of the day they are finally free of the expense and maintenance of wearing either. As tempting as the ads are, LASIK Surgery may not be right for everyone.
Understanding LASIK Surgery
LASIK is the acronym for laser in-situ keratomy, eye surgery involving [...]
The Old Hard Compared To Soft Contact Lenses
I can remember a time when hard contact lenses were the only ones you could buy. Today, these are relics of the past that have been replaced by more flexible materials. Hard contact lenses are hardly ever prescribed in fact that nowadays they’re practically obsolete!
Hard contact lenses
The early hard contact lenses were made out of [...]
Contact Lens Maintenance What You Should KnowI must admit I didn’t give proper contact lens maintenance very much thought. When you think about it, wearing contact lenses isn’t natural. What you’re actually doing is willingly placing foreign objects into your eyes which are some of the most sensitive parts of the body. You wouldn’t normally allow something unsanitary into your body, [...]
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