Dr. Colby answers the question: 'What Are Toric Contact Lenses?' Aug. 24, 2009— -- Question: What are toric contact lenses, when are they used and what are the risks/benefits of using them?

To report visual and refractive outcomes, and endothelial cell loss following primary and secondary ‘piggyback’ toric intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in patients with high post-penetrating ...

Objectives: To characterize toric contact lens prescribing worldwide. Methods: Up to 1,000 survey forms were sent to contact lens fitters in up to 39 countries between January and March every year for ...

Amid growing reports of eye problems ranging from blurry vision to torn corneas, federal health officials are threatening to issue a public warning about recalled contact lenses manufactured by ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Over the years, one of the most frustrating soft contact lens patients I’ve had to deal with is the low myope ...

I've been wearing yearly toric lenses for a while now, and I'm just starting to try to change over to 2-week ones. A complaint that I had about my old lenses was that I often didn't see perfectly ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved Abbott's Tecnis Toric 1-piece intraocular lens (IOL) to treat preexisting astigmatism in patients with cataract. The blurry vision of ...

Intraocular lenses are implanted in a patient's eye after the removal of the natural lens that has become clouded by a cataract. Unlike conventional IOLs, the TECNIS Toric 1-Piece IOL can correct a ...