It is estimated that one in ten people in our country wears contacts. This adds up to approximately 40 million Americans in contact lenses. If you are one of them, you may remember your eye doctor providing you with detailed information regarding the optimal care of your “new eyes.” Contact lenses offer clear advantages over…
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Contact lens wearers should never ignore these symptoms
Our eyes are designed to protect themselves naturally from irritation with tears and blinking. But our eyes can also be susceptible to conjunctivitis, an inflammation or infection of the thin layer of tissue that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and covers the white part of the eye. You might know conjunctivitis by a…
The Truth About Colored Contacts
Not that many decades ago, it would have been impossible to think that you could have any other eye color than the one you were born with. But since the invention and extremely successful use of contact lenses, we’ve been able to experiment with our eye color in ways our grandparents couldn’t have imagined. You…