Eye Contacts What Kind of Eye Contacts Are There?

Eye contacts, also known as contact lenses or contacts, is a lens that is placed on and covers the cornea of the eye. Typically they are used as a corrective measure for poor eye sight. However, they are also used for cosmetic purposes. For example there are Halloween contacts that are used to alter the appearance of the eye to fit the costume.

Eye contacts serve the same function of glasses, but are virtually invisible. Just like eye glasses, lenses are designed to improve vision. In many people there is a difference or mismatch between the refractive power of the eye and the length of the eye. This leads to a refraction problem where the light is not focused properly on the retina and causes images to be distorted or blury. Glasses and contacts neutralize this mismatch and allow for the image to focus on the retina properly.

Over the last several years color contacts have become popular. These contacts offer the same corrective purpose as regular lenses but come in just about any color you can imagine including the more natural colors such as blue, green and brown.

There are many reasons people choose to wear contact lenses. When compared to eye glasses, they are less affected by the weather, have a much wider field of vision, don’t steam up, nor have the annoying feeling of sliding down the bridge of your nose like glasses do.

For these reasons many people enjoy the benefits of eye contacts, especially those that play sports. With the competition levels in sports it can be very difficult if not unsafe to wear glasses. This is why most sport players that need corrective vision wear contact lenses.

There are also some known vision conditions that cannot accurately correct the vision by simply wearing eye glasses. Conditions such as keratoconus and aniseikonia require the use of contacts to accurately alter a patients vision to a normal state.

With the advancement in technology, there have been many variations of lenses brought to the market. There are:

Hard Eye Contacts
Soft Eye Contacts
Colored Eye Contact Lenses
Toric Contact Lenses
Disposable Contact Lenses
Bifocal Contact Lenses
Halloween Contacts Lenses
Extended Wear Contacts
Special Effects Contacts