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Originally Posted by Kyleden
Thank you for the real numbers, knotlob. Your final point is a very good one. I suppose practicing taking your contacts out every night is good for the contact lens wearer and they will probably catch on fairly quickly.
Do you suppose that if eye doctors start telling their patients to remove and clean their contact lenses each night it will decrease the sales of said contacts? "If I have to take my contacts out every night, I might as well wear my glasses"?
That's what we really need to know at Lens.com, right?  |
Personally I wear contact lenses because they offer a number of advantages (for me) over spectacles. Namely, sports, zero distortion compared to sometimes severe distortion with glasses, no annoyance in rain or snow with glasses getting clouded up, no misting up when coming from cold into a warm humid room, no discomfort when wearing a helmet (skiing, cycling, motor biking, etc.) better peripheral vision, aesthetics. These advantages outweigh the handling issues with contact lenses.
As regards Extended Wear, I used to wear Biofinity lenses. These are Extended Wear also, but I would never dream of wearing them in that mode. I now wear Menicon Z alpha RGP lenses with very high Dk and which, are also one of the very few certified as Extended Wear lenses. But again I wouldn't think of wearing these in Extended Wear mode either.
So, even if doctors stopped prescribing lenses to be worn in Extended Wear mode, I don't think it would make any difference to the use of contact lenses.
knotlob