Guide to Comfortable Contact Lenses

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Cost Comparison

For Typical Vision Correction Approximate costs shown for a year’s supply: Dailies: around 12 boxes/year ($288) Weeklies: around 10 boxes/year ($260) Monthlies: around 5 boxes/year ($195) Costs based on regular price of 1 Day Acuvue Moist (dailies), Acuvue Oasys (weeklies), and Air Optix Aqua (monthlies) at AC Lens.com. Expect to pay less when... [Read more of this review]

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Color Contacts Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a prescription for color contacts? Yes! In the United States you must have a prescription for color contacts. By law, color contacts are considered medical devices (even if worn only for cosmetic reasons), and must be prescribed by an eye care professional. Even if you have perfect vision and don’t wear contacts or glasses normally, you... [Read more of this review]

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How Contact Lenses Are Made

The history of the contact lens reaches back as far as Da Vinci, who sketched samples as early as 1508. The corneal contact lens was suggested later by the famed mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes, in 1632. But the modern contact lens really has its beginning around the turn of the 20th century. Adolf Fick gets the credit for inventing the... [Read more of this review]

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How Contact Lenses Work

A clear, relatively hard mound of tissue called the cornea sits in front of the pupil of the eye. Behind the pupil is the lens that focuses light onto the retina, which creates reactions that stimulate the optic nerve to send signals to the visual cortex in the brain. That, in a nutshell, is what makes sight possible. But along the way several things... [Read more of this review]

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Getting Started with Color Contacts

Contact lenses are first and foremost a practical device. But there’s no reason they can’t also be a fashion statement, a way to alter your natural attributes to suit your fancy. The types of contact lenses that make that possible fall into four categories: Visibility tints are typically a light blue or green cast infused into a contact... [Read more of this review]

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