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2. Contact lens - Wikipedia

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   A pair of contact lenses, positioned with the concave side facing upward. Putting contacts in and taking them out. One-day disposable contact lenses with blue handling tint in blister-pack packaging. Contact lenses, or simply contacts, are thin lenses placed directly on the surface of the eyes. Contact lenses are ocular prosthetic devices used ...

3. Scleral lens - Wikipedia

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   A scleral lens is a prototypical lens dating back to the early 1880s. Originally these lenses were designed by using a substance to take a mold of the eye. Lenses would then be shaped to conform to the mould, initially using blown glass and then ground glass in the 1920s and polymethyl methacrylate in the 1940s. [6]

4. List of soft contact lens materials - Wikipedia

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   Types. The FDA classifies soft contact lenses into four groups for the US market. They are also subcategorized into 1st generation, 2nd generation, and 3rd generation lens materials. [6] These 'water-loving' soft contact lens materials are categorized as "Conventional Hydrophilic Material Groups ("-filcon"): Group. Water Content.

5. Intraocular lens - Wikipedia

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   Intraocular lens. An Intraocular lens ( IOL) is a lens implanted in the eye usually as part of a treatment for cataracts or for correcting other vision problems such as short sightedness and long sightedness; a form of refractive surgery. If the natural lens is left in the eye, the IOL is known as phakic, otherwise it is a pseudophakic lens (or ...

6. Orthokeratology - Wikipedia

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   Inflammations or infection of the anterior segment of the eye or the cornea. Disease, injury or abnormality affecting the cornea, conjunctiva or eyelid, or impacting contact lens wear. Very dry eyes or low eye moisture. Corneal hypoesthesia (low sensitivity) Eye related allergies, including allergies to contact lens solutions.

7. Progressive lens - Wikipedia

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   In normal use, a much smaller section of the lens is used, so that the distortion is much smaller. Progressive lenses are corrective lenses used in eyeglasses to correct presbyopia and other disorders of accommodation. They are characterised by a gradient of increasing lens power, added to the wearer's correction for the other refractive errors.