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BUYING CONTACT LENSES: NEW WORLD OF CHOICES By  LISA BELKIN Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save VIEW PAGE IN TIMESMACHINE , Page 001044 The New York Times Archives In 1887, when they were first invented in Switzerland, there was one kind of contact lens, which was made of glass and covered the entire eye. Today, there are more than 40 different brand names of contact lenses in the United States, including hard ones, not-quite-so-hard ones, soft lenses for daily wear, soft lenses that can be worn for weeks at a time, bifocal lenses and lenses with tints. As modern versions become more comfortable, more effective and more popular, choosing among them becomes more complicated. ''The ideal contact lens is one that is well tolerated, that you see well with,'' said Dr. Jorge Buxton of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. ''It's not going to be the same for everyone. There's not one answe...

Fashion Making Contact By  DAVID R. ZIMMERMAN FEB. 20, 1977 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save VIEW PAGE IN TIMESMACHINE February 20, 1977, Page 225 The New York Times Archives Shortly after the November elections, two Americans who had been very much in the national limelight visited their optometrists. President‐elect Jimmy Carter stopped in at the Brunswick, Ga., office of Dr. Carlton Hicks, who fitted him, for the first time, with one contact lens—for his right eye. A few weeks later, TV newscaster Barbara Walters, who has worn contact lenses for years, was at the Manhattan office of Dr. Robert J. Morrison for her regular twice‐annual checkup. Jimmy Carter and Barbara Walters have different visual problems. According to Dr. Hicks, President Carter, who has not needed corrective lenses, is beginning to have difficulty in close‐up reading and vision—a condition called presbyopiawhich afflicts most peo...

All About: Contact Lenses And How to Choose Them By  NADINE BROZAN JAN. 5, 1977 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save VIEW PAGE IN TIMESMACHINE January 5, 1977, Page 77 The New York Times Archives WHAT is transparent, plastic, roughly the Size of a pinky fingernail and can stop a basketball game when it is lost? It's the contact lens, an object that in the last three decades has considerably increased the methods of treating eye defects and enabled patients to conceal their need for visual aid. Actually, the idea of applying a small disk to the eye's surface is nor new—Leonardo da Vinci is credited with the original concept—but it lay dormant for several centuries until a Swiss eye doctor prescribed a glass shell in 1887 for a patient with a cancerous eyelid. Now, almost as if to make up for lost time, refinements and innovations are being formulated so rapidly as to render the contact lens of 10 years a...