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Recent Contact Lens Articles
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The Inventor of the Modern day Contact Lenses – Otto Wichterle
Professor Otto Wichterle, had the greatest influence on contact lenses since the second world war. Wichterle tried to make contact lenses in a mold using HEMA (hydroxyethylmethacrylate), developed the spin casting process, the first effective production method for soft contact lenses. He was born in Prostejov, Northern Moravia, and after a sickly childhood wanted to […] Read more
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Surgically Implanted Contact Lenses
In the following report by, voanews, a collage student, Tommy Hardeman, gives us an account of his choice to have contact lenses surgically implanted. Many people are not able to have LASIK eye surgery, contact lens implants may be the alternative they have been looking for. Unlike LASIK surgery where the shape of the cornea […] Read more