Ridge Gas Permeable Lens

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

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

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

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

Rigid Gas Permeable 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 Lenses last longer than 'soft' lenses. They're built tougher. But they can take more getting used to when you first start wearing them.

Some people can handle RGP lenses, but they aren't for everyone.

The best thing you can do is talk to your eye specialist now.