Friday, April 23, 2010

Fix Farsightedness By Sleeping In Your Contacts

Reshaping the Cornea with Contact Lenses Image courtesy of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

From Popular Science:

What if you could go to sleep with a vision problem and wake up with a crystal-clear view of the world? A Spanish optometrist not only says this is possible, but he actually wants you to sleep in your contacts. His patented contact lenses, designed to achieve the same effect of corneal reshaping surgery, can correct vision defects like myopia (nearsightedness) and stigmatism – and now hyperopia (farsightedness) – without taking sharp instruments or lasers to your eyes.

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