Extended Wear Color Contact Lenses Offer Style and Practicality

Extended wear color contact lenses are a good example of how much the industry has changed over the last ten years. Contacts have come a long way since the days of hard, uncomfortable lenses that needed to be disinfected overnight. Now, you can have brown eyes one day, green the next. Soft contacts can be thrown away at nighttime and a new pair in place the next day. And, with new advances extended wear lenses can last for an entire month.

Since the early 1980s, extended wear lenses have been on the market. The first ones were supposed to last for up to a month but many patients were beginning to develop eye infections. The time limit was moved down to seven days, but even then some were experiencing difficulties. The problem was that small organisms were being transferred from the finger or some other source and getting lodged between the lens and the eye. The absence of oxygen was creating an environment for the organism to grow. Thus, many eye infections were the result. But, thanks to modern technology, the problem is no more.

30-day extended wear contacts are available on the market again. This new breed of continuous wear contacts are made from a new material that allow oxygen to penetrate. This soft, silicone hydrogel material allows almost six times the amount of oxygen to pass through than the former extended wear lenses.

Colored lenses that are extended wear allow the user to have beautiful eyes that don't need constant care. Some of the colors available for extended wear lenses include blue, green, brown, turquoise, violet, and hazel. Color extended wear contacts usually come in pairs and can be purchased over the Internet with a prescription.