Development of Specialty Soft Contact Lenses continues to spin off even more categories, like UV blocking contacts

With the innovations of today's technology, there are a great variety of specialty soft contact lenses available to meet your vision needs, whatever those may be.

Traditionally those with astigmatism only had the option of wearing gas permeable hard contacts. Today, they can wear specialty soft contact lenses known as toric lenses. Toric lenses are a type of specialty soft contact lenses that help combat the problems of astigmatism, which are caused by the cornea being irregularly shaped.

Another type of specialty soft contact lenses employing exciting new technology are Proclear lenses by Coopervision. These specialty soft contact lenses are made of a unique material composed of phosphorylcholine (PC) molecules. The PC molecules help these specialty soft contact lenses to actually prevent your eyes from getting dry by fooling the eyes into believing they belong there.

There are some specialty soft contact lenses that are designed to block UV light. Other specialty soft contact lenses can help people who play sports by making certain colors, such as yellow, stand out for a tennis player.

One of the other major categories of specialty soft contact lenses are colored lenses that allow people to either change their eye color entirely or to enhance the natural color of their eyes. Specialty soft contact lenses are also available from some providers that create clear effects that can appear to glow in the dark or turn your eyes black or any number of other dramatic changes.

As technology continues to develop, so do specialty soft contact lenses that are increasingly more comfortable and more diverse as they provide better vision. Specialty soft contact lenses can meet a variety of vision needs in ways that were only imagined a decade or two ago.

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