Only one lens?
Elaine has been a patient at The Contact Lens Practice in Birmingham for 35 years and is one Optician Geoff Wilson's longest-standing patients. Elaine, with 42 years lens wearing experince under her belt, thought she had experienced it all - hard, soft and gas permeable lenses - but then she was introduced to "over night vision correction contact lenses". "It seemed unbelievable that I would be able to see with my own eyes again - but when Geoff said I would need to wear a lens in only ‘one' eye - well, that really took some believing!"
Geoff explained: "This technique is called monovision - the planned use of one eye (usually the weakest) to provide reading vision, while the other is used for clear distance vision. Although most people have two eyes that work equally together, the brain still prefers to concentrate on viewing images with one eye rather than the other."
Seeing with my own eyes
Elaine concluded: "It's the silliest things that makes over night vision correction so wonderful for me. For the first time since I was 12, I can see the detail of things like bark on a tree - and all with my ‘own' eyes!"
