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See and be Seen Better with Colored Toric Contact Lenses
It's not only possible to correct for astigmatism with contacts, but with colored toric contact lenses, you can improve or change your eye color too. And with the comfort of soft contact lenses, it's practical and easy to have more than one color. So you can see better and look better with colored toric contact lenses.
Although it's simple to correct for astigmatism with contact lenses, it's not as simple to maintain the correction. Unlike a normal cornea, an astigmatic cornea isn't perfectly spherical. And because of this, when looking for colored toric contact lenses, it's important they're designed for stability. A toric lens needs to stay in one position to be effective, but the lens is subject to moving every time you blink. And if a toric lens rotates or moves to one side, your vision becomes distorted.
Another factor to consider with colored toric contact lenses, is whether you want regular daily wear contacts or frequent replacement types. Although their annual cost is more, frequent replacement lenses do cut down on possible microscopic buildups that can form on lenses over time.
Colored toric contact lenses, like other color contacts, have two levels of tinting. The least amount is for lenses which don't change your eye color, but merely make it better. And even though the tint covers the lens, it's so light that it doesn't color what you see. These types of contacts are usually called enhancement lenses and are normally made for light eye colors.
The other type of colored toric contact lenses have a non-transparent layer of tint designed to change your eye color. These contacts, called opaques, have a solid ring of color which completely covers your iris. However, the center of the lens over your pupil is clear, so you vision is unaffected.
As an example of the options available for colored toric contact lenses, CIBA Vision makes DuraSoft brand contacts in either enhancement tints or opaque tints. Replacment varies from every three months to yearly and they can be worn just during the day or occasional overnight use too.
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