CLE Contact Lenses

In response to a slurry of summer emails we’ve gotten from our wonderful customers, clecontactlenses.com would like to ask the you a question: What are the best contact lenses on the market and why ?

While offer every major brand, we are always curious to hear what the public has to say so from time to time we take their pulse.

To start the “debate” I’d like to throw out a few statistics…
1) More than 80 million people currently wear contact lenses worldwide.
2) More than 74% of those contact lens wearers are between the ages of 18 & 48.
3) The contact lens was originally envisioned by Leonardo DaVinci and the idea of the corneal contact lens was further developed by Rene Descartes. Thomas Young used Descartes ideas to later develop the contact lens.
4) The average price of contact lenses online is 43% less than those found at your eye care professional and some “retail” outlets.

While it is not for us to say what the best contact lenses on the market are, we are comfortable saying that some of our top selling brands include the Acuvue brand from Johnson & Johnson, Frequency brand and Proclear brands from Coopervision as well as Boston EO, Focus Dailies and Air Optix are also very popular brands.

In the summer months our contact lenses with built in UV protection like the Acuvue Moist brand contacts seem to sell a bit better than in the colder months.

Our most popular solutions are the Boston Advanced, Boston Simplus and Boston Original brands as well as OxySept and Menicare CDS for rigid, gas permeable lenses.

So, jump in and let us know your thoughts. In your opinion, what are the best contact lenses ?

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As the number of people 40 years old increases, so does the need for contact lenses that correct both the distance and near vision. Until recently, there have been bifocal contact lenses that have attempted to deal with this problem, but have fallen very short. The introduction of Bifocal disposable contacts has further complicated this issue. While these lenses are convenient with regard to replacement, the poor optics most often results in less then happy patients. They usually create a great deal of glare, and poor vision at distance, near or both.

Recent improvements in the quality of non disposable, multifocal contact lenses has resulted in a vast increase in the quality of the vision in the distance and near, better comfort and little or no glare at night. The combination of spherical and aspheric curves and thinner edge design has vastly improved all aspects of patient satisfaction with multifocal contact lenses.

The level of expertise and time required for fitting these contacts is much greater then the simple disposables and thus requires an Optometrist that has much more experience and is willing to spend the time required. Our office fits many of these lenses per day and has the answers to the difficult questions that arise when fitting the lenses.

We have patients coming all the way from Europe and South America to be fit with these contacts because of our high success rate. We are constantly researching new developments in this field and modify our fitting philosophy based on the most current information available.

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