Determine if Toric lenses for Astigmatism are right for you

Astigmatism: An unequal curvature of the eye, resulting in blurred vision.

Because of the nature of astigmatism, toric lenses do not have regular surfaces, but follow the irregular surface of your eye closely. In general we are talking about very small distances, but enough to give you your focus back.

Toric lenses are equipped with 2 or even 3 powers. One power to correct the irregular surface of your eye, the other powers are for nearsightedness and/or farsightedness.

As you can understand all these powers makes toric lenses more difficult to make. Depending on the complexity of your prescription it also means that toric lenses are more expensive.

Regular contacts instead of toric lenses

As a cheaper option your optometrist can choose to let you try hard contact lenses if your astigmatism is only light. The astigmatism is then remedied by your own tears! The RGP lens forces some distance between lens and eye at the astigmatic spots, which are filled with tear liquid. This then serves as a masking lens. It is a cheaper solution than toric lenses and may be a perfect option for you.

Types of toric lenses

Thanks to recent developments your astigmatism can be corrected using soft toric lenses. You can even buy bifocal-, disposable-, color enhancing- and opaque colored toric lenses. Even disposable colored contact lenses are available as torics.

Brands making toric lenses

Most major brands nowadays make torics nowadays. Toric Focus Contact Lenses by Ciba Vision and Acuvue Toric Lenses by Johnson&Johnson are among the most commonly prescribed planned replacement toric lenses for astigmatism.

Following are the wold's foremost toric online contact lenses stores. Each of them has a lot of expertise with these lenses and have a full staff of experts to answer more questions:

• 1-800 CONTACTS.COM

As the world's largest contact lens store, 1-800 Contacts is dedicated to providing you with a simple way to replace your contact lenses. At 1-800 Contacts, you will receive the exact same contact lenses your doctor prescribed, delivered to your door, at a great price. And with an inventory of over 20 million contacts, they are more likely to have your choice in stock than anyone else, which means you'll receive your contacts fast. In addition they provide live online- and telephone help 7 days a week. Large volumes help keeping the price down. No more running around town to pick up contact lenses.At 1-800 Contacts they deliver, you save.