Guide to Contact Lenses

Prosthetic contact lenses for disfigured eye: As their name suggests, prosthetic contact lenses are created to decorate disfigured eyes. They either mask eye flaws by trauma and eye diseases or block excess light for abnormally functioning eyes. Prosthetic contacts can provide a healthy eye appearance using custom-painted colors. They have no special difference in materials and care methods with regular contact lenses.
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Must-knows about contact lenses: Contact lenses provide fashion expression and a complete vision field suitable for sports without apparent eyeglasses, and eliminate the need for irreversible refractive surgery. Among vision correction ways for myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism, contact lenses have gained a 20% share in US.
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Wearing contact lenses for prolonged time: According to wearing schedules, contact lenses have two types: daily wear and extended wear. The difference lies in that extended wear requires no removal before sleeping so that they can provide a clear vision as soon as you wake up. Extended wear contacts are designed to permit more oxygen on the cornea, which should get prior approval from FDA. While most extended wear contact lenses are made for continuous seven days wearing, silicone hydrogel-made ones can last up to 30 days without removal. This type is also available in RGPs. Thanks to technological improvement; extended wear contacts are comfortable during the full time period.
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Contact lenses evaluation for kids: Compared with eyeglasses, contact lenses have a lot of advantages. They can provide better peripheral vision and improve your performance in sports. With contact lenses, you don’t need to worry about the bad aspect of eyeglasses that are prone to breakage. Many contact lenses, such as gas permeable (GP) lenses, offer better optics than eyeglasses.
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Presbyopic patients with varifocal contact lenses: If you need to read menu, newspapers from a further distance, you have probably developed presbyopia. Bifocal contact lenses are the solution to this vision problem. Bifocal contact lenses are available in soft and RGPs types, disposable type as well as silicone hydrogel extended type up to 30 days.
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Different soft contact lenses care solutions: Besides the wide selections of soft contacts themselves, their care is also an important aspect in order to prevent eye infections. The ever reported fungal eye infections is a clear warning against unhealthy contacts handling. You should always follow the guidance and steps while cleaning contacts, although the one-bottle care systems have made lens care much easier than before. And the basic requirement is that you should never switch care regimens between different soft lenses, which are not compatible.
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Convenient and healthy disposable contact lenses: Disposable contact lenses are worn for a certain period and replaced by a new pair, so that they are more convenient and healthy. For replacement interval, contact lenses can be divided into some types: disposable lenses replaced within two weeks, frequent replacement lenses replaced monthly or quarterly and traditional lenses replaced every six months or longer. Currently, disposable lenses including the first two types have been the most popular.
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Ortho-k contact lenses for cornea reshaping: It is exciting that the technology named orthokeratology applied to your contact lenses can reshape your cornea at night and offer a clearer vision even without contacts at daytime. Although the magic effect lasts about only one day, it is great for many people.
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Contact lenses for special eye problems: Some people have special eye problems and are not suitable to wear contacts. They require particular fitting by ECPs. Some ECPs specialize in these hard-to-fit patients. They provide more expertise and advanced equipments for contacts fitting.
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Contact lenses for personalized needs: People may need customized contact lenses if they have special eyes or high astigmatism, or they just need additional comfort and particular clear vision. Both RGPs and soft lenses are available for people’s personalized needs.
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