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Are your contact lenses uncomfortable?
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Consumer Guide to Contact Lenses: How and where to get contact lenses, types of lenses, reading your Rx and proper lens care
Wearing tips: How to apply and remove your contact lenses
Understanding your contact lens prescription
Dry eyes making lens wear difficult? Try contact lenses for dry eyes
Have an unusual Rx? You may need custom contact lenses
Avoid eye infections with proper soft lens care
30-day contact lenses: Smart alternative to LASIK?
It's time you tried contact lenses for astigmatism
Multifocal contact lenses: See clearly without reading glasses
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Types of Contact Lenses

See our new Contact Lens FAQ section, sponsored by Bausch & Lomb

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Vision Procedures

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Which eyeglasses would look best on you?
Our shape and color analysis helps you pick the most flattering frames More

Lenses & Coatings

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Ask the dry eye doctor for expert advice
William Trattler, MD, provides personal responses to your questions More

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Cataract Surgery
Start to finish, here's what happens during your cataract surgery.

GP Contact Lenses
How to apply, remove and clean them (Source: Contact Lens Manufacturers Association).

LASIK
The five basic steps of LASIK eye surgery.

Handling Soft Contacts
Special features to help you handle and insert your contacts. (Source: Acuvue)

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