Common Eye Disorders

Myopia (nearsighted or short sighted) This is one of the most common vision disorders. It is the inability to focus on objects at a distance. The light rays are focused at a point in front of the retina, causing a blurring of the image. Myopia is typically caused by continued up close activity which causes [...]

Taking Care of Your Contact Lenses

Contact lenses are a popular way to correct eyesight, whether short sighted, far sighted, presbyopia, or stigmatic eyes. Contact lenses can also be uses by people who have had eye surgery for cataracts. Disposable contact lenses have become very popular, though a lot of people use hard contact lenses and gas permeable lenses. Obviously with [...]

Types of Contact Lenses

Contact lenses are one of the most popular forms of eyesight correction. It has been estimated that there are greater than 3.3 million people in the UK alone wearing contact lenses (The Association of Contact Lens Manufacturers). Contact lenses are used to correct short sightedness (myopia) and long sightedness (hypermetropia), and there are also lenses [...]