Archive for the ‘Soft Contact Lense’ Category



5
Aug

Hard Vs Soft Contact Lenses – Usability as the Main Difference

What is the main difference between hard and soft contact lenses? If you asked me to explain the difference in a word, I would say – usability. Soft contact lenses are easy to use – you get used to them at first wearing. However, hard contact lenses are known for more distinct picture they enable to see. Astigmatism (that most people this or that way suffer from) is easily corrected with hard contact lenses, and it’s much more difficult and sometimes impossible to treat it with soft lenses. The thing is that hard lenses give a hard and strictly round shape to damaged cornea. Soft lenses are just put on the cornea and, therefore, they cannot treat astigmatism or cannot correct it in full. Moreover, they can ruin the eyesight as they can slightly warp at drying and winking.

If go on to compare hard and soft contact lenses, I should say that hard lenses are more lasting than the soft ones. Hard contact lenses are less subjected to air pollution impacts. Soft lenses absorb water, sprays and cosmetics. Saleswoman at perfumery can notice soon that her lenses became dirty and cause inconveniences now. Sprays can damage hard contact lenses as well, but as opposed to soft ones, hard contact lenses are easier to clean. Click to continue...

5
Aug

Soft Contact Lenses: Did You Know Before?

  • The main feature of soft contact lenses is moisture absorption. When soft contact lens dries out, it loses its flexibility and becomes very fragile.
  • Soft contact lenses are used in treatment of myopia, long sight, presbyopia, astigmatism and in aesthetic purposes, namely, for eye color change. There is a wide range of soft contact lenses – there are those that can be worn at daytime, 24 hours, a week, or a month.
  • Soft contact lenses can be used for medical purposes, such as at aphacia, at introduction of medicine into the eye, or when there is a need to protect the eye to enhance its healing. Soft contact lenses, as opposed to hard ones, are less likely to move or to fall out. Soft contact lenses are easy in use – patients adapt to them at once.
  • People with long sight can wear soft contact lenses, however, as the ways they see objects in glasses and in lenses differ, as a rule, they do not reject wearing glasses - they wear glasses and soft contact lenses by turns.