If you're one of the millions of people who find themselves unable to use standard contact lenses due to astigmatism or an eye shape that is somewhat irregular, there is good news.
Though you might once have been unable to ever wear contact lenses to correct your vision, the new lines of custom contact lens can ensure that you too can have access to the many benefits contact lenses offer.
Whether you are an avid athlete who simply wants to be free from the visibility and mobility restrictions glasses often impose, or simply feel that you look better without glasses on your face, custom contact lenses can help you to realize your goals.
New designs for changing times In the past, far too many people have found themselves separated from the opportunity to wear contact lenses, for the reasons noted above - and a host of others.
For some, the very structure of the once industry-standard gas permeable lenses with a rigid design prevented them from being worn with any degree of comfort.
In many cases, the lenses would either fit improperly, or would move during eye blinks and other motions.
The discomfort these motions created would make them almost unbearable to wear.
The industry, looking for ways to both bolster its customer base and provide better quality products to its existing customers, searched for and found new technologies to counter these problems.
The result was the creation of various custom contact lens solutions.
The newest gas permeable designs enable manufacturers to create custom contact lens that offer increased comfort of wear as well as better and more consistent visibility.
Using new materials and new design technologies, these new lenses are making it possible for literally millions of formerly disenfranchised would-be contact lens wearers to finally set aside their bulky eyeglasses.
Who can benefit The wonderful thing about these new technologies and design innovations is that more people than ever before can now obtain the latest custom contact lens measurements and fittings.
Because of the new advances in these fittings, optometrists are better able to account for the abnormalities in any given pair of eyes, and recommend base and periphery contact lens curves that more accurately reflect the shape of any given individual's eyes.
This has opened up the benefits of contact lenses to larger segments of the population than ever before.
People who have eye defects, have suffered eye injuries, or who have had failed Lasik surgery attempts, now all have the opportunity to use custom contact lens technology.
The fact is that the latest technologies in custom contact lens design have finally taken the industry beyond its former niche in the eyewear market and moved it into the realm of being almost universally available to all who seek to have their vision corrected but who want to avoid the need for eye glasses.
As a result, more people than ever before are setting aside their often uncomfortable eyeglasses and opting instead for the freedom that contact lenses offer to those who wear them regularly.