Word: lensful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equally anxious to clear up the business is the American Optometric Association, which last week had sent out to members 50,000 copies of a frank, sensible booklet, "What Everyone Asks About Contact Lenses." Key points: no matter how well fitted, the contact lens is a "foreign body" in the eye, so the wearer must "learn to tolerate this intruder just as one must learn to wear false teeth." This may mean a week or two of varying discomfort, for some patients a month or more. Rare indeed are the happy individuals who can pop lenses into their eyes, feel...
Vanity & Sport. Grinding the tiny, feather-light plastic lenses is technically so difficult that eye practitioners do not attempt it themselves, leave it to specially equipped laboratories. These labs do not sell directly to the public, so they remain unknown, though Chicago's Plastic Contact Lens Co., the giant in the field, has made more than 4,000,000 pairs in ten years. Average price to ophthalmologists and optometrists: $50 to $60 a pair. After fair charges for examinations, fittings and corrections, the practitioner may collect $150 to $300 from an average patient. Those with special problems must expect...
...most of these (in the 15-40 age range) take to them for vanity. A few, such as models and actresses, need them for professional reasons. Among them: Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel (TIME cover, Dec. 3, 1951), Hollywood's Deborah Kerr, Ann Sothern, Debra Paget. Since the lenses can be tinted, they came in handy for turning grey-eyed Nina Foch (a regular wearer anyway) into a brown-eyed Egyptian in The Ten Commandments...
Esther Williams, who is myopic, wears them out of the water but does not bother with them when immersed. Swimmers who need correction for reasons other than myopia usually wear the bigger scleral lens because it is harder to dislodge under water. Skindivers who use scuba favor contacts because spectacles...
Special types of contact lenses are being devised for a variety of visual defects. There are two main types of bifocals, one squared off so that it will not rotate, the other made of concentric circles, with the reading prescription on the outside (this type can rotate freely). When the eye has lost its own lens because of a cataract operation, a contact can help in many cases to supply the tremendous correction needed. Another type is being tried in the early stages of glaucoma. There is evidence that contacts may slow down the progression of myopia, and hope that...