What You Need To Know About Multifocal Toric Contact Lenses 2005

Used by sufferers of astigmatism, hyperopia, and myopia, toric lenses are specialized contact lenses that have, in recent years, become available as multifocal soft contacts and in the process given rise to a host of lens colors and replacement schedules. It is multifocal toric contact lenses, however, that offer true convenience for the wearer as they provide, in one lens, the necessary vision correction for astigmatic and presbyopic sufferers.

The combination of these functions is facilitated by the design of the lens. Toric contacts provide two different powers within the same lens in order to correct for the necessary near and far distance requirements of the wearer. In multifocal design, it is not so much a cut-and-dried case of 'near' and 'far'. Instead, the lens is created (usually using a concentric 'ring' design) to offer progressively changing powers in order to provide a gradual transition from one distance to the next. In this way people need not only have clear vision at one extreme or the other, 'losing' their middle vision in the process, but a broad spectrum of viewing possibilities.

Although multifocal torics are typically found in RGP ( Rigid Gas Permeable ) lens form, as mentioned above it is possible, based upon your specific needs, to obtain a soft contact prescription. As always, it is a good idea to consult with your preferred eye care professional in order to best ascertain what it is exactly that you require. After all, what we want and what we need is not always the same thing, now is it?

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