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My Contact Lens Articles

Here's my selection of contact lens articles, filled with information on the types of contacts available, how they were made, who manufactured the lenses, what problems they solve for you, and so forth.

I learned a lot about contact lenses while researching these articles. Some of it is quite fascinating.

For example, Leonardo Da Vinci theorized about making them more than 400 years before the technology to create real contact lenses actually became available. But it's during the last 100 years that the development of contact lenses has really taken off in leaps and bounds.

Soft contact lenses, the ones we take for granted today, only started being available to the public in the 1970s and 80s. The hard contact lenses used before that time were very tricky to care for and were uncomfortable to wear for long periods as well.

Fortunately, modern contacts are a dream by comparison. And now we have so many different types of lenses to choose from. That alone creates it's own problems... the difficulty of choosing the right lenses for your eyes (and your budget).

Leonardo, great visionary as he was, would have been flabbergasted.

Anyway, I do hope you find some of these contact lens articles both informative and useful.