Whereas glasses are easier to maintain and usually cheaper, contacts don't distort your peripheral vision and are better for ...

On one hand, glasses are easy; they can be stylish, and they can help you see. On the other hand, they’re easily lost or broken, they get dirty, and they can give you headaches if you don’t need to ...

The debate over glasses vs. contacts has been around for centuries — at least since the late 1800s, when the first contact lenses were introduced. Back then, contacts were made of blown glass, covered ...

Have you ever had your glasses slide off your nose at the gym? Welcome to the club. Glasses serve a very important and obvious purpose — namely knowing what’s happening on TV — but they're far from ...

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I started needing glasses sometime in the sixth grade, and I hated them. When I was finally allowed to get contacts in the eighth grade, I never looked back. But I won't lie that I was pretty curious ...

Do you occasionally discourage eyeglass wearers from trying contact lenses simply because of astigmatism or presbyopia? Or intimate to contact lens wearers that new eyeglasses are not necessary ...

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Glasses are cheaper, easier to maintain, and better for children — but they can get in the way during activities and distort your peripheral vision. Contacts are invisible, can be worn in almost all ...