Tag: rigid contact lenses
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What is Keratoconus?
So what is Keratoconus? The long and short of it is football shaped eyeballs. Strange? Yeah. The underlying cause is still unknown but the shape results from the stretching and thinning of the cornea. Over time the front of the eye loses its spherical shape forming instead a bulge or cone. This greatly affects the…
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Eye Health Awareness Week 2010 – Day 3: Wearing Contact Lenses
If you did a 10 minute survey of people coming out of a busy station chances are a large proportion of them would be wearing contact lenses. According to the Association of Contact Lens Manufacturers, around 3 million people in the UK wear contact lenses but that number is growing fast all the time. With…