28 Oct 10 Contact Lenses: Contact Lens, Advanced Medical Optics, Renu, Alcon, Acuvue, Bionic Contact Lens, Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act
Chapters: Contact Lens, Advanced Medical Optics, Renu, Alcon, Acuvue, Bionic Contact Lens, Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act, Circle Contact Lens, Scleral Lens, Ultravision, O2 Optix, Base Curve Radius, Coopervision, Ciba Vision, List of Acuvue Products, Rigid Gas Permeable, Oxygen Permeability. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A contact lens (also known simply as a contact) is a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the eye. Leonardo da Vinci is credited with describing and sketching the first ideas for contact lenses in 1508, but it was more than 300 years later before contact lenses were actually fabricated and worn on the eye. Modern soft contact lenses were invented by the Czech chemist Otto Wichterle and his assistant Drahoslav Lím, who also invented the first gel used for their production. Contact lenses usually serve the same corrective purpose as glasses, but are lightweight and virtually invisiblemany commercial lenses are tinted a faint blue to make them more visible when immersed in cleaning and storage solutions. Some cosmetic lenses are deliberately colored to alter the appearance of the eye. Some lenses now have a thin surface treatment which is a UV coating; this helps to reduce UV damage to the eye’s natural lens. It has been estimated that 125 million people use contact lenses worldwide (2%), including 28 to 38 million in the United States and 13 million in Japan. The types of lenses used and prescribed vary markedly between countries, with rigid lenses accounting for over 20% of currently-prescribed lenses in Japan, the Netherlands and Germany but less than 5% in Scandinavia. People choose to wear contact lenses for many reasons, often due to their appearance and practicality. When compa…More: http://booksllc.net/?id=74845
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27 Oct 10 Acuvue Color Contacts – Peanuts Gang Snoopy Lens Case Travel Set
·Heart shaped contact lenses case made of plastic
·Mirror, tweezers, little bottle for liquid medicine and cases for contact lenses as one set
·Compact closure, safe and easy access
·Two different lids for your to tell right from left
·Small in size, ideal travel companion
·Please note: contact lenses are NOT included
Price: $43.20
07 Oct 10 Love Rabbit Travel Acuvue Contact Lens Box Case Mirror
- Comes with an inner mirror, a pair of tweezers, a forceps and a tiny bottle for medicinal liquid for your convenience
·Cute Love Rabbit patternon the lid
·Snap-openlid with easy-open lip
·Contact lens cases of different color, avoiding the mixing of left and right
·Made of high quality plastic
Price: $44.20
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