What are soft contact lenses? Soft contact lenses are made of a sponge-like material. They absorb water and most soft lenses have a water content of over 50%. This is not pure water, but must match ...

Soft contact lens are used to correct the vision of the eye. These lenses are made of soft water absorbing flexible and translucent polymers (hydrogels) and a high amount of plasticizer. These are ...

and managed to stay there without causing obvious symptoms because they were soft lenses. The woman, who researchers said gave consent for her image to be used, had been using contact lenses for ...

Soft contact lenses continue to dominate the global contact lens market, accounting for around 90 per cent of all fits worldwide. 1 Materials, optical designs and additional features continue to ...

While soft toric contact lens fitting had been regarded as a ‘speciality’ until recently, the number of lens designs available has increased and the fitting approach simplified. This is reflected by a ...

Preserve the longevity and safety of your contact lenses by avoiding these common mistakes, according to an optometrist.

She was a swimming instructor and swam with daily disposable soft contact lenses and swimming goggles. The initial diagnosis was herpetic keratitis. Topical and systemic antibiotics and aciclovir were ...

Meet the Voigtlander Heliar 75mm lens, an unusual lens that allows photographers to add and remove bubble bokeh with a twist ...

We asked eye doctors everything you've ever wanted to know about contact lenses expiring and when to replace them.

Aims To determine if ‘Defocus Incorporated Soft Contact’ (DISC) lens wear slows childhood myopia progression. Methods A 2-year double-blind randomised controlled trial was carried out in 221 children ...

Here, we therefore introduce a novel soft contact lens device that instead creates a monocular central scotoma inversely mirroring the physiological variation in spatial acuity across the monocular ...