What are contact lenses? Contact lenses are a thin lens that you place on your eye and it allows you to see. Over 177 million people in America need some sort of corrective lenses to help them see clearly. Most people start out by wearing glasses.You can just wear them and you only see through the lenses. I wore glasses for many years. They were big, heavy, and gave me really bad headaches. Other people use contact lenses to see. They are tiny, and you see so much more. During the summer, before my freshman year, I decided to try out contact lenses. They were not very easy to put in. When I finally got it, they have changed my life!
Contact lenses were first invented in 1936. William Feinbloom made one of the first versions on contact lenses, hard contacts. They were made of plastic and glass. The first soft contact lens was invented in 1960. I use soft contact lenses and they feel very comfortable, and they only last around one month. I don’t even feel them in my eye. Hard contact lenses are very painful, but they can last years.
Contacts are very different with each person. Some people have bigger eyes, some people have a really high prescription. If you are interested in contact lenses, your eye doctor has to measure the size and shape of your eye. Then they order your contacts with your specific needs. Then the manufacturer company designs a contact lens that fits your prescription and size.Then they choose the right lens for your prescription for example, soft contacts or hard contacts. Next, they mold and melt the contact lens into the right size for your eye. Then they cut the lens, and smooth around the contact lens. Before the contact lenses are ready, they go through an inspection to make sure that they are 100% safe. Finally, they are package and deliver to your eye doctor.
It is important to take care of your contact lenses. The health of your eye is really important. There are a few certain steps people need to take to put them in correctly and safely. First, wash you hands and dry them. Second, grab your contact from the contact case, make sure that it is not inside out. It should look like a bowl. Next, put the contact lens on your finger and place it on your eye. In the beginning its really hard to get them in because your eyeball blinks a lot and its easy to drop the contact lens. With lots of practice and patience, you can get your contact lenses in. Taking them out is the easiest part. Just pinch the contact our of your eye and put it back in the contact case with new solution.
Contact lenses can be another alternative for glasses. I love wearing my contacts and they have changed my life. If you are considering trying contact lenses, just try it! You can always just wear your glasses if it doesn’t work out.
Do you wear contact lenses?
Would you ever wear contact lenses if you need corrective lenses?
What is your opinion on contact lenses?
Sources:
https://www.joslineyecenter.com/how-contact-lenses-are-made/
https://www.acuvue.com/get-contacts/how-to-get-contacts#:~:text=At%20the%20office%2C%20
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Very interesting topic choice and super job Mikayla!
I don't not have contact lenses nor do I have glasses at all. Although, If I were to have prescription glasses, I would eventually choose to wear contact lenses. Though it might take a bit to learn how to put them in and take them out, I think it would all be worth it.
Contact lenses have changed our lives!! Contacts are sooo much more convenient and confer than glasses.
I do not wear contact lenses but i do know that they help. For example, for sports. Since glasses are not recomended for sports because they can break easily contacts are a good way to prevent that. If my eyes were bad enough, yes, I would like to use them.
I have had a few pairs of glasses almost break from pe. I am not sporty but it would have switched to contacts a lot sooner if I was.
I think contact lenses are very cool and useful. If i needed them I would definitly get them and they've helped many people.
I do not wear contact lenses, but if i needed contact lenses to see corectly i think that i would choose to wear them. I personally think that contact lenses are a very good invetion and that they are benefical to many people and have changed lives
I think contact lenses are a great invention and they absolutely help me keep up my day-to-day life. Just having to worry about them at the beginning and end of my day helps me a lot. For example, glasses can fall off people's faces easily which sucks if you have an active lifestyle.
They are one of the best inventions ever. They have changed everyone's life's for the better. Not we live in a clear world.
i think contact are so good but for me is a problem because i have special eyes i raelly need glases but there is people who prefer contact's and there is people who preferd glasses but is depend what people like
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