Has your eyesight deteriorated to the stage where you have to wear glasses? Are you all right with that? Well, there are a number of alternatives to be had these days, so you do have other choices. If you do not want to undergo surgery, you can still choose contact lenses. In fact, contact lenses have been a viable alternative to spectacles for decades.
Surgery can be a more permanent solution to difficulties with eyesight, but for various reasons, some people do not like to take up this option. This leaves contact lenses as the best alternative. The first thing to notice about contact lenses is that most people will not know that you are wearing them. This is very important to some people and not significant to others at all.
Contacts provide better all-round or peripheral vision than spectacles. When you look to the side wearing specs, there is no glass there, but contacts cover your entire pupil so that your vision is closer to normal. This is safer if you are driving a car or riding a bike or even attempting to cross a road.
Another problem that numerous people find with specs is that they leave indentations on the nose. Some people find these ugly. Glasses also need frequent cleaning, which many people find annoying, whereas contacts are cleaned by the eyes’ normal cleaning system – in other words, automatically.
Stylists also think that their prescription glasses have to go with what they are wearing. This can mean that you have to have a dozen pairs of glasses. If your eyesight deteriorates further, which is fairly likely, all those glasses will have to be up-graded as well. This is not the case with contact lenses of course.
Both specs and contacts can adjust for astigmatism or bad eyesight, which comes to most people after the age of forty. Sometimes earlier and occasionally later, but it will happen. Your choice, if you do not want to undergo surgery, is whether you would prefer to wear glasses or contact lenses.
In the past, contacts were very costly, which is why numerous people still discount using them, but in fact it is no longer the case. Contacts are more expensive, but not much more now. In fact, you can purchase disposable contact lenses and numerous people do do that.
The fact is that there are better options to wearing either contacts or specs, but most individuals do not know it. It is possible nowadays to have one eye operation and never have to wear spectacles again. Or you could have laser surgery and probably not require specs again for ten or twenty years, but some people are adverse to having surgery and so they opt for glasses or contacts.
In the long run, surgery is almost definitely less costly than wearing contacts and wearing contact lenses is almost definitely cheaper than wearing spectacles, but it is the same with most items, people only look at the up-front costs and cheaper is rarely better.