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 [...]
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Contact Lens Cure For Nearsightedness
Categories: Contact Lenses, Nearsighted -Myopia, Uncategorized
Nearsightedness Controlled With New Contact Lens Technology On June 30 2011 the Myopia Control With Simultaneous Vision Approach Clinical Study was registered as complete at ClinicalTrials.gov. This double blind study involved 100 children testing a contact lens designed to slow the progression of nearsightedness (myopia). Optometry researchers have been studying the interaction between central deatailed [...]
Contact Lenses And GPC Red Eye Red
Categories: Uncategorized
Contact Lenses And Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis Soft contact lenses have undergone a quantum increase in technology since the introduction of the first silicone hydrogel lens in 1999. Today we are on the third generation of these lens materials and undoubtedly we will see improvements over the next few years. Silicone is highly permeable to oxygen [...]
Eye Growth & Bumps Often Pinguecula
Categories: Contact Lens Problems, Dry Eyes, Eye Diseases
Optometrists Find High Incidence of Eye Growths and Bumps on White of Eyes in Northern Colorado are Benign & Often Pinguecula A large number of people in the Fort Collins show up at the optometrists office with benign growths on the white part of their eye referred to as pingueculas. Actually they develop on the [...]
Contact Lens Solutions Changes To Reduce Eye Infections
Categories: Corneal Infections, Keratitis, Pinkeye
Contact lens solutions will soon be required to have two new additions to their labeling. Although most manufacturers no longer label solutions “no rub” the F.D.A. will require rubbing lenses as part of disinfecting cycle on labeling for all multipurpose contact lens solutions. The other change will be to add a discard after opening date [...]
Soft Contact Lens Irritatation Eyelid-GPC
Categories: Contact Lens Problems, Contact Lenses, Eye Allergies, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis-GPC, Pinkeye, Vision Insurance, Vision Service Plan -VSP
SIX SIGNS YOU MAY HAVE GPC FROM YOUR CONTACT LENSES Itchy eyes as contact lenses get older Lenses that slide and stick under the upper eye lid Irritation Every Time You Blink Mucous Discharge and Foggy Vision Lenses That Discolor and Develop a Film Intermittent Red Eye With Feeling Something is Scratching Your Eye In [...]