What Is a Toric Contact Lens?

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There are many kinds of contact lenses that people wear to correct their vision. The type that each patient wears is determined by what his vision problem is, what his eye shape is, and his preferences. Before getting any type of contact lenses, get an eye exam from an optometrist in Sandy Springs, GA, on our team to have your eyes assessed. An eye doctor on our team will tell you which type of contact lenses you need to wear. We at Eye 1st Vision Center are here to help.

Hard Contacts

Toric contact lenses can sometimes come as hard lenses. They have a more rigid shape than soft contact lenses. This rigidity is there to help to compensate for the abnormal shape of the eye that generally necessitates these lenses.

Toric lenses are usually worn to correct the vision of patients who have astigmatism in some form. Astigmatism is the abnormal shape that causes the lens or cornea of your eye to have a different curvature. Soft contacts might not correct this problem as well, so hard toric lenses might be needed. When someone has astigmatism, it is a refraction error that causes light to be bent unevenly along different planes. This is what causes the blurred vision and visual distortion.

Wearing Toric Lenses

When you wear hard toric lenses, they might not feel the same as other contacts. The rigidity might cause patients to be able to feel the contact on their eye, unlike with soft contacts. It can take some time to get used to the feel and fit of these lenses, but many patients do just that and like having contacts as an option.

Get Your Eye Exam from the Eye Doctor

When you want to try contact lenses for your astigmatism, first get an eye exam from an eye doctor. Call an optometrist in Sandy Springs, GA, on our team to make your eye exam appointment. Call us at (404) 252-1702 for Eye 1st Vision Center.

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