Contact Lenses & Sunglasses!

Many people don’t realize how important proper contact lens maintenance really is. 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, yet people place dirty contact lenses into their eyes all the time! Read the rest of this entry »

Hard versus Soft Contact Lenses

There was a time when rigid (hard) lenses were the only options. Today however, these relics have been replaced by widely accepted, more flexible materials. Hard contact lenses are so rarely prescribed in fact that nowadays they’re practically obsolete!

Hard contact lenses

Early hard contact lenses were made out of polymethyl methacrylate or PMMA, also known as Lucite. This material was very uncomfortable but it did allow vision correction without any distortion. It took people a long time to get used to wearing hard contact lenses and they also required a considerable amount of maintenance. Read the rest of this entry »