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How Many Contacts Come in a Box?

Q: How Many Contacts Come in a Box? A: Six* This is one of the more common questions I hear when people are wondering how much their contacts are going to cost. The simple answer is six, but there is a better question to ask: “How much is a year supply of contacts?” Some brands [...]

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Ultraviolet Light (a.k.a. UV rays) damages ocular tissues causing all sorts of conditions: photokeratitis and conjunctivitis (snow blindness), premature cataracts (lens cloudiness), and solar retinophathy (retina damage). Eye doctors always recommend that you buy glasses with a material or coating that blocks UV light, but what about contacts?

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Many people get dryness with soft contact lenses. Sometimes that can be the contact lens material itself, but a lot of times the culprit is the contact lens care regimen they use. Here are my rules of thumb to avoid dryness:

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Hot Tubs and Contact Lenses

It is important while swimming in a pool or relaxing in a hot tub that you remove your contacts. It doesn’t matter to me if you are in extended wear, daily wear, or daily disposable. [caption id="attachment_40" align="alignright" width="550" caption="Don't wear contacts in a hot tub!"]Don't wear contacts in a hot tub![/caption]
Take out the contacts in the pool or hot tub because

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Contacts to Match Your Lifestyle

When thinking about the kind of contacts you want, there is a whole lot more to think about than simply price. Most standard contacts are taken out every night. If you don’t, then eye health problems like infection, inflammation, and new blood vessel growth on the cornea are more likely to occur.

But realize you have other choices. There are some lenses on the market that you can

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Daily Disposable Contact Lenses

Most contact lenses are two week disposable, and there are a few that are one month, and a select few that are 3 month, but the arguably most healthy kind is the daily disposable.

Ciba Focus Dailies, ClearSight and Proclear 1-Days

Dr. Bazan wrote a post about why he likes them. Let me add that they are great if you have

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