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Contact lenses are classified as medical devices in Australia and regulated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, and Optometry Australia recommends a full eye examination and fitting with a reg...

Astigmatism has an intimidating name and a fairly simple explanation. It is also one of the most common reasons a prescription looks more complicated than a friend's, and one of the most common rea...

Somewhere near the end of ordering a pair of glasses, you are asked to choose your lens options. Most people either tick everything, in case it matters, or tick nothing, because the descriptions al...

The single biggest hesitation people have about buying glasses online is fit. You cannot try them on, the photographs all look the same size, and a frame that looks generous on a model might sit ha...

Nearly half of all soft contact lens wearers experience dryness at some point, and as many as fifty percent give up on contact lenses altogether within three years because of discomfort. Choosing t...

Plenty of people know they need glasses without ever being clear on why. They know the number plate ahead is blurry, or that the menu has started drifting further from their face, and they know an ...

Maybe you already own a pair. Maybe you are standing in a pharmacy right now, reading the packaging and wondering if it is actually worth it. Or maybe you just clocked your third afternoon headache...

Swimming with contact lenses is one of those habits that feels harmless because nothing goes wrong the first hundred times. You jump in at the local pool, open your eyes underwater, get out, and ev...

If you wear contact lenses and dread spring, you are not imagining the connection. Allergy season is harder on lens wearers than on everyone else, and it comes at you from two directions at once. P...