People choose to wear contact lenses for many reasons. Aesthetics and cosmetics are the main motivating factors for those who want to avoid wearing glasses or to change the appearance of their eyes....

People choose to wear contact lenses for many reasons. Aesthetics and cosmetics are the main motivating factors for those who want to avoid wearing glasses or to change the appearance of their eyes....

Overview   “Giant papillary” refers to large bumps that form under your eyelid. GPC is an eye irritation, not an infection.   This is condition that often occurs with the over-wearing of contact l...

A cataract is a clouding that develops in the crystalline lens of the eye varying in degree from a slight to a complete opacity which limits, or obstructs, the passage of light to the back of the eye....

Early Cataract   The lens in the eye must be clear in order to receive a sharply focussed image. If the lens is cloudy or opaque due to the gradual formation of a cataract, the image becomes progres...

This condition is also known as Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca, but more commonly referred to as Dry Eye Disease (DED). The tear layer is made up of three layers; a lipid, aqueous and mucin layer; which b...

Macular degeneration (MD) is an eye disorder that occurs when the tissue in the macula deteriorates. The health of the macula determines our ability to read, recognize faces, drive, watch television, ...

When you work at a computer for any length of time, it's common to experience eye strain, blurred vision, red eyes and other symptoms of computer vision syndrome (CVS). This is because the visual ...

People choose to wear contact lenses for many reasons. Aesthetics and cosmetics are the main motivating factors for those who want to avoid wearing glasses or to change the appearance of their eyes. ...

Depending on your outdoor lifestyle, you also may want to explore performance sunglasses or sport sunglasses. The amount of UV protection sunglasses provide is unrelated to the colour and darkness of ...

Protecting the skin outdoors from the harmful effects of Ultraviolet (UV) radiation are known to decrease the risk of skin cancer, similarly it is vitally important to protect the eyes from the harmfu...

Eyes are very important to us, so we have to be careful to look after them. They show us our world and they show others how we are feeling. When we talk to other people, we notice what their eyes are ...

Emmetropia (from Greek emmetros, "well-proportioned" or "fitting", + -opia) describes the state of vision where a faraway object at infinity is in sharp focus with the crystalline lens in a neutral or...

Presbyopia is a loss of accommodative abilities, mostly commonly resulting in reduced near vision in the early stages and is usually, but not always, an age-related visual impairment. The gradual decr...

Astigmatism (from the Greek “a” meaning absence and “stigma” meaning point) is a refractive error (ametropia) that occurs when parallel light rays entering the non accommodating eye do not converge to...

Hyperopia, also termed hypermetropia or farsightedness, is a refractive error in which parallel rays of light entering the eye reach a focal point behind the plane of the retina, while accommodation i...

Myopia is derived from the term "muopia" which, in Greek, means to close the eyes. It manifests itself as blurred distance vision, hence the popular term "short or near-sightedness." Clear distance vi...

Polar Opposite. How is your vision experience different when wearing NuPolar polarized lenses? Particularly compared to regular sunglasses or even the naked eye?   The difference is Polar Opposite...