Myths, Fears and Facts about Contact Lenses
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Contact lenses can get lost behind your eye
FICTION. It’s physically impossible for a contact lens to get lost “behind” your eye. A thin membrane covers your eye and connects to the inside of your eyelids, so the lens is unable to move off the front surface of your eye.
Contact lenses can get fused to your eye
FICTION. In the vast majority of cases, contact lenses are easily removed using the method your doctor recommended. Contact lenses can always be removed with a little patience.
Contacts can pop out of your eye and get lost
FICTION. With proper selection and fitting, lenses should stay in place almost all the time. Even on that rare occasion when a soft contact lens moves out of place, it stays on your eye until you can move it back.
If you have astigmatism, contact lenses won't work
FICTION. People with astigmatism can enjoy all the freedom and benefits of contact lenses. Acuvue Oasys Brand Contact Lenses for Astigmatism and Acuvue Advance Brand Contact Lenses for Astigmatism combines Accelerated Stabilization Design that can help to naturally align your lense every time you blink.
It's OK for teenagers to wear contact lenses
FACT. Lots of teens, and even some pre-teens, wear contact lenses. The average age teens first get contacts is 13, but it has been shown that some younger children – even as young as 8 – are mature enough to wear and care for contact lenses. Successful lens wear depends more on responsibility and attitude than age. Your eye doctor will help determine if your child is a candidate for contact lenses.
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