What would Leonardo da Vinci say?

What would Leonardo da Vinci say? There has never been a better time to try contact lenses. With new technology making them accessible to people with an array of prescriptions and eye conditions. Advances in manufacturing techniques mean that contact lenses are now more comfortable than ever before and of course the offer of free trials from large branding companies such as Johnson and Johnson Acuvue Contact Lenses. Wave goodbye to your specs and dive into the world of the contact lens. You won’t be disappointed! Most of us take our vision for granted and just expect our eyes to work perfectly as soon as we open them each morning, until the moment we close them to go to sleep. Some of us however are dependant on aids such as spectacles or contact lenses to correct our vision.

We depend on sight more than any other of our senses to manoeuvre through the space around us. In a single glance, lasting a fraction of a second, our eyes work with our brains to tell us the size, shape, colour, and texture of an object. They let us know how close it is, whether it's standing still or coming toward us, and how quickly it's moving. Every day, our eyes give us messages that help us understand the world around us.

Today, more than three million people in the UK enjoy the clear, natural and unobstructed vision offered by contact lenses which don’t fog up or get splashed with rain as spectacles often do.

Major advances in contact lens design mean that almost everyone can wear contact lenses successfully nowadays. The contact lens market is competitive and there are many big brands such as Johnson and Johnson Acuvue contact lenses, Bausch and Lomb, Ciba Vision and many more to choose from depending on your needs and your budget.

In recent years contact lens technology has advanced in leaps and bounds which means that common eyesight defects, such as short-sightedness and long-sightedness, are easily corrected with contact lenses, but now conditions such as astigmatism and presbyopia can also be treated very effectively with contact lenses.

Many of the bigger brands such as Johnson and Johnson Acuvue Contact Lenses are constantly developing manufacturing technology to ensure that they stay at the cutting edge of contact lens design. For example Acuvue Contact Lenses currently offer a new daily disposable contact lens which they advertise as having more oxygen, which helps eyes stay white and clear because the oxygen availability to the eyes is almost 100% as per the natural eye. Has the Highest UV Protection to help protect your eyes by offering the best UV protection of any daily disposable contact lens and all of this with the convenience of enjoying all the benefits of a fresh, new lens everyday. All of this is a far cry from Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches and descriptions of several forms of contact lenses way back in 1508!

As contact lenses are worn next to the eye, there is nothing to obstruct your peripheral vision in the way that spectacle frames can. Also, the lenses move with your eye, meaning that you are always looking through the centre of the lens, where vision is best. In the majority of cases, people actually see better with contact lenses than they would with glasses.

With many opticians now offering an array of incentives such as free trials of contact lenses, now has never been a better time to give them a try.

Conclusion

There are many myths surrounding contact lenses which range from Contact lenses getting lost behind your eye (which is physically impossible due to a thin membrane which covers your eye and connects to the inside of your eyelids, so the lens can’t move off the front surface of your eye) to Contact lenses getting stuck to your eye
(An 'urban myth', there is no truth in these stories. It simply doesn't happen).

With an estimated 125 million people worldwide wearing contact lenses it can’t be that bad can it!