Coloured Contact Lenses - All That You Need To Know
Colored contact lenses are placed over the cornea and they temporarily stick to the pupil providing a new colour to your eyes along with better and clearer vision. They are very easy to use and comfortable to use as compared to spectacles. Contact lenses do not interrupt the side vision as found with spectacles.
The medically acclaimed remedies that temporarily cure short sightedness or farsightedness are contacts or contact lenses.
Contacts have rendered a great help in easing off the burden of spectacles. They are very small and are very light in weight. These make them easy to use and comfortable for your eyes. They also come in various colours.
What Types of Contact Lenses Exist?
Colored contacts distinguish themselves by the nature of material used for their making, purpose and designs.
Nature of the material:
The medically acclaimed remedies that temporarily cure short sightedness or farsightedness are contacts or contact lenses.
Contacts have rendered a great help in easing off the burden of spectacles. They are very small and are very light in weight. These make them easy to use and comfortable for your eyes. They also come in various colours.
What Types of Contact Lenses Exist?
Colored contacts distinguish themselves by the nature of material used for their making, purpose and designs.
Nature of the material:
- Hard,
- Rigid gas permeable,
- Hybrid
- Therapeutic purposes such as for healing or protecting the cornea
- Cosmetic purposes such as for changing the color contacts of your eyes or for improving the appearance of disfigured eyes
- Optical purpose such as for refractive error corrections
- Daily wear lenses are removed while sleeping, but are worn daily
- Extended or continuous or prolonged wear lenses are worn while working and sleeping as well
- Traditional wear lenses are replaced annually
- Occasional wear lenses are worn occasionally
- Disposable wear lenses are thrown away after a specific time as prescribed by the manufacturer
- Flexible wear lenses are worn occasionally during both day and night
- Spherical lenses: They have a spherical posterior and anterior
- Toric lenses: They have different radii of curvature of two principal meridians and are of three types namely, front surface toric lenses, back surface toric lenses and bitoric lenses.
