Contact Lenses Care

As you know by now, quality contact lenses and quality eye care don’t come cheaply. I always advise my patients not to compromise when it comes to their eyes. Cheap lenses and poor fit can prove to be expensive, especially when the lenses stay in the dresser drawer rather than on your eyes. Most important, the wrong lens or improper fit can result in damage to the eye. An educated consumer is one who knows enough about contact lenses to choose a qualified expert to fit him or her, thus avoiding discomfort, eye damage, and ripoffs. Unless the contact lenses are used to treat a disease or are used following eye surgery, they will most likely not be covered by standard medical insurance. Read the rest of this entry »

I am short sight patient, I never asked questions about my glasses or contact lenses (normally I directly went to my doctor). Until I had to shop my own lenses some years later, so I started to wonder this question: Why Two Systems of lenses?

In hard lenses and gas-permeable lenses, wetting solutions are a most important product. They are directly responsible for making the lenses more comfortable. Hard lenses have a slick, hydrophobic (water-hating) surface over which water and tears do not readily spread. Wetting solutions make the lens’s hydrophobic surface a hydrophilic (water-loving) one that accepts water more readily. Read the rest of this entry »