You Need A Little Testosoterone To Wear Contact Lenses Today No, you don’t need to be a man or need a man to wear contact lenses. But a little testosterone cream may help women continue wearing contact lenses as the birthdays add up. Dr,. Charles Conner Jr. and Dr. Charles Haines have been working on [...]
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Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lenses
Categories: Contact Lenses, Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis-GPC
Silicone Contact Lenses-What You Need To Know The last 12 years have been a revolution in terms of contact lens materials.Adding silicone has allowed for over a 500% increase in the amount of oxygen passing through the lens to the cornea. Well over half of all new contact lens fits today are using these new [...]
Help Wanted For Optometrist Office In Ft Collins
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Are you looking for a new career direction? Helping people see better is one of the more rewarding things you can do. This is an ideal position for someone wanting a mid life job change without the stress of large corporate retail businesses. A partial job description follows: Assisting patients at check in and check [...]
Contact Lenses To Treat Eye Allergies
Categories: Contact Lens Problems, Eye Allergies, Uncategorized
Acuvue K The Contact Lenses For Itchy Eyes Contact lenses are about to enter a new realm as drug delivery devices. While a number of applications are expected, Acuvue may be the first off the block with an antihistamine releasing lens. In 2007 Vistakon, the manufacturer of the Acuvue lens family, sponsored a clinical study of [...]
Fuch’s Corneal Dystrophy Eye Problems
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Fuch’s dystrophy is an eye condition effecting the clear corneal tissue covering the colored part of the eye. The cornea is an incredible tissue measuring only ½ mm thick with layers of collagen aligned precisely to allow for transparency. It is separated into five regions, the posterior most being the layer of endothelial cells. The [...]
Acuvue Advance Plus or Minus
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New Acuvue Contact Lens- Or Is It? Vistakon announced late last year the introduction of the Acuvue Advance Plus contact lens. Plus means they have made it better right? Not quite so fast. According to Vistakon’s website, the Acuvue Advance Plus utilizes ULTRA-CLEAN™ Technology that helps resist the buildup of deposits on the lens surface. [...]