Contributor content. For millions of people with vision issues, the choice between glasses and contact lenses is an ongoing ...

If you aren't sure if you're holding onto expired contact lenses, look at the month and year printed on the box or pack. For example, if it reads 06/23 on the box that means the contacts are OK to ...

Putting in your contacts should be a pretty seamless process: You wash and dry your hands, fish your lenses out of their package or their storage case, put them into your eyes, then embrace ...

When do your contact lenses expire? If you don't know the answer, you should hear what eye doctors have to say.

A story with the headline “Doctors find 27 contact lenses lodged in woman’s eye, journal reports” went viral. So, is it possible to have that many contacts stuck in your eye and not know?

Scleral contact lenses are larger than the cornea. Most are 14 to 24 millimeters in diameter. They vault over the cornea and rest on the sclera, the tough, white part of the eye. The fluid within ...

But if you’re not seeing your eye doctor as often as you should, it’s possible that your contacts won’t fit as well anymore, Dr. Fleming says, so they can start popping right out of your eyes.

Contacts Contact lenses are thin discs of plastic or glass that sit directly on your eye to correct vision. There are two types -- soft and hard, also called rigid glass permeable.

For this study, the CDC used a survey of over 4,500 US adults and over 1,600 kids ages 12 to 17 to check how they use contact lenses. They found that 85 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds (six in ...