Opinion

Coloured lenses - I'm afraid not

Rory Brogan

As Halloween approaches and the annual alerts about the danger of wearing zero-powered fancy dress lenses are published http://www.opticianonline.net/bcla-alerts-consumers-novelty-contact-lens-risk/ it's interesting to note that advances have recently been made in a different form of coloured contact lens - the eye-enhancing or cosmetic contact lenses. As a recent round table at Optician's offices http://www.opticianonline.net/cosmetic-contact-lenses-roundtable/ revealed, there was practitioner agreement that now lenses were available in modern materials and modalities, there would no longer be such reluctance to offer them to patients. This was a major market back in the 1980s that had withered away because cosmetic contact lens technology had failed to advance.

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