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My What Big Contacts You Have

Tens of millions of Americans suffer from dry eyes. For an especially bad condition, it feels like there's always sandpaper in the eyes. But instant relief can be found in a pair of wide-diameter contact lenses called scleral contact lenses. A conventional rigid contact lens is about 9 mm. in diameter. It lies on the cornea, which covers the colored part of the eye. A scleral contact lens vaults over the cornea and rests on the sclera, the white part of the eye. Underneath the dome, a reservoir of saline solution… Read more