Ridge Gas Permeable Contact Lenses

You just typed 'ridge gas permeable contact lenses' into your search, but I think you meant rigid gas permeable contact lenses. Anyhow, you've reached the right place.

A ridge gas permeable contact lens, sorry rigid gas permeable contact lens is sometimes called an RGP or Rigid Gas Permeable lens, a GP lens (gas permeable) or just a plain oxygen permiable lens. They're all the same thing.

These RGP contact lenses are the most 'state-of-the-art' hard lenses you can buy nowadays.

I should call them 'hard-ish' because they're nothing like the old 'hard' contact lenses of the 1960s.

Rigid Gas Permeable contact lenses were first introduced in 1981. They are much more comfortable than the old hard lenses were, and they can be used in your eyes longer since they let oxygen get to the eyeball. That was a major problem with the old 'hard' lenses, which didn't let oxygen through.

Rigid GP contact lenses last longer than 'soft' lenses. RGP contact lenses are tougher, and harder to damage. But they take more getting used to when you first start wearing them.

For further information, the best thing you can do is talk to your professional eye specialist.