Many people who used to wear disposable soft lenses and then dropped out have come back again. What caused the tide to turn? The technology behind contact lenses has advanced to such an extent that manufacturers are now able to make large quantities of high-quality disposable soft lenses that are consistently the same. This reproducibility means that each lens is exactly your prescription, box after box. This is important, regardless of your wearing schedule, whether you discard your lenses daily, weekly, every two weeks or monthly. In addition, new more efficient manufacturing technology has lowered the pricing so that even daily disposables are available for about a dollar a day.
Eye doctors tend to gravitate toward disposable soft lenses. They are comfortable. They provide excellent vision for most people. And there are definite health benefits when lenses are replaced more frequently. For instance, even the most diligent cleaning may not rid contact lenses of all the debris and deposits that can stick to them. This can degrade vision and even set up the potential for an infection.
Disposable soft lenses are available in a broad range of powers. Most can be ordered from +6.00 to –12.00 – and even in toric designs for people with astigmatism and multifocals for people with presbyopia. If your prescription is available in disposable soft lenses, it’s worthwhile to give them a try.