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planned replacement contact lenses. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines soft contact lenses as: made of soft, flexible plastics that allow oxygen to pass through to the cornea. Soft contact lenses may be easier to adjust to and are more comfortable than rigid gas permeable lenses.
Contact lenses, or simply contacts, are thin lenses placed directly on the surface of the eyes. Contact lenses are ocular prosthetic devices used by over 150 million people worldwide, [1] and they can be worn to correct vision or for cosmetic or therapeutic reasons. [2]
Because long periods of contact lens wear are correlated with extended hypoxia, the resurgence of cellular growth and epithelial metabolism following contact lens removal (and hence, improved oxygen circulation) leads to an initial, increased resurgence of microcysts containing cellular debris.
The Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act ( Pub. L. 108–164 (text) (PDF), 117 Stat. 2024, codified at 15 U.S.C. ch. 102 et seq. ), also known as FCLCA, [citation needed] is a United States federal law that aims to improve consumer protection and ocular health for contact lens users.
Orthokeratology, also referred to as Night lenses, Ortho-K, OK, Overnight Vision Correction, Corneal Refractive Therapy (CRT), Accelerated Orthokeretology, Cornea Corrective Contacts, Eccentricity Zero Molding, and Gentle Vision Shaping System (GVSS), is the use of gas-permeable contact lenses that temporarily reshape the cornea to reduce ...
A circle contact lens, also known as a big eye contact lens and circle lens, is a cosmetic (non-corrective and decorative) contact lens that makes the eye's iris appear larger. It has become a trend throughout East, South and Southeast Asia and is largely produced in Japan, South Korea and China .
A bionic contact lens is a proposed device that could provide a virtual display that could have a variety of uses from assisting the visually impaired to video gaming, as claimed by the manufacturers and developers. [1] The device will have the form of a conventional contact lens with added bionics technology in the form of a head-up display ...
Google Contact Lens was a smart contact lens project announced by Google on 16 January 2014. [1] The project aimed to assist people with diabetes by constantly measuring the glucose levels in their tears. [2] The project was being carried out by Verily and as of 2014 was being tested using prototypes. [1]
A scleral lens, also known as a scleral contact lens, is a large contact lens that rests on the sclera and creates a tear -filled vault over the cornea. Scleral lenses are designed to treat a variety of eye conditions, many of which do not respond to other forms of treatment.
The British Contact Lens Association [1] is an educational and scientific membership organization formed in 1977. In 2013 it had 2000 members. It organizes an annual Clinical Conference and Exhibition. In 2015 the main themes were myopia management and presbyopia correction.