Soft lenses are made of plastic with a high water content.

This technique can also be used for soft lenses.

But these people may have satisfactory correction with soft lenses, which are generally more comfortable.

Soft lenses in particular are becoming easily available, and the options as to types can be bewildering.

Soft lenses that correct both nearsightedness and astigmatism are available.

While rigid lenses have been around for about 120 years, soft lenses are a much more recent development.

Soft lenses may be placed on the conjunctiva (the white part of the eye) and slid into place.

Even as we speak, I'm wearing soft lenses.

This occurs mainly in contact lens wearers, particularly those wearing soft lenses.

Soft lenses are often used in the treatment and management of non-refractive disorders of the eye.

Care should be taken to ensure that soft lenses are not inside-out prior to insertion.

During the 1970s, he developed a new material (etafilcon A) and began making soft lenses at Frontier.

Millions of people wear contact lenses, and most wear soft lenses.

Contact lenses, especially soft lenses, may absorb eyedrops, which can cause problems.

The soft lenses sometimes do curious things to eye color, altering some shades, intensifying others. '

During a run in a Neil Simon play, I struggled with soft lenses which made my cry continuously.

Soft lenses are immediately comfortable, while rigid lenses require a period of adaptation before full comfort is achieved.

Contact Lens Warning Researchers say soft lenses once intended for extended wear should be removed every night.

Multipurpose solutions are the most common method for rinsing, disinfecting, cleaning, and storing soft lenses.

Once only available in a rigid, gas-permeable form, toric lenses are now available also as soft lenses.

This process can be used to shape rigid lenses, but can also be used to make soft lenses.

Hard lenses, soft lenses and everything in between are available, including disposable, bifocal and colored lenses.

Toric soft lenses and rigid gas-permeable contact lenses can correct moderate amounts of astigmatism.

"They said that a lot of people feel discomfort or have trouble adjusting to their first pair of soft lenses," Ms. Bowman recalled.

In the case of soft lenses, the lens is cut from a dehydrated polymer that is rigid until water is reintroduced.