Exploring Contact Lenses There are millions of Americans who need corrective lenses in order to see with clarified vision. The amount of loss of vision varies from individual to individual, some have severe vision loss that requires stronger prescriptions for coping with their lost sight and others require only slight modifications to allow them to see. No matter what the level of vision loss, one of the options for corrective lenses available to many are contact lenses, or contacts. Contacts are worn by millions of Americans to help them coup with their vision impairments yet there are still many individuals who have yet to consider contact lenses as an option for their personal needs. There are multiple kinds or types of contact lenses available and all come with their own sets of advantages, disadvantages and unique purposes. However, there are a few advantages to wearing contact lenses that nearly all contacts have in common.
Avoiding Glasses One of the first, and the main advantage that many people think of when they think of wearing contacts over regular eye glasses, is purely cosmetic. Many believe that they look better wearing the unnoticeable contact lenses than if they were to wear their eye glasses, although recent trends in fashion have brought back eye glasses as a part of overall fashion. But whether or not a person wears contacts to avoid wearing glasses, there are still several other benefits of contacts that many people do not often think of. First and foremost, contact lenses move with the eye, as opposed to regular eye glasses that simply try to cover the entire field of vision by placing a lens close to the eye. By being able to move with the eye, a contact lens allows for a more natural field of view by the wearer and likewise enables the corrected vision to extend to the peripheral vision of the individual. Similarly, due to the contact being on the eye, the wearer does not have to deal with their field of view being obstructed by the frames of traditional eye glasses.
No Fogging Another advantage that all contacts share over their eye glasses counterparts is that, unlike regular eye glasses, contact lenses do not fog up in any situation. Nor do contacts have any more ability to attract smearing mud or distorting rain than does the natural human eye, whereas eye glasses are capable of being limited in their effectiveness due to both splattered mud and water droplets of rain. Because contact lenses attach painlessly to the eye itself, many active persons prefer contacts over eye glasses. Eye glasses can be cumbersome and an overall annoyance to people who are participating in
sporting events or other physical activities as well as run the risk of being broken, lost, or otherwise damaged; all of which contribute to general use of contacts in such activities and not adapted eye glasses. There are likewise those optometrists who claim that contact lenses offer better sight to persons as compared with traditional eye glasses, although this is certainly a matter of opinion rather than a provable fact. Nonetheless, those who are in need of corrective lenses should first ensure that they have the appropriate coverage for vision health insurance and then consider greatly what benefits contact lenses could offer to them.