Whois & Analysis for eyeglassworld.com

A contact lens, or simply contact, is a thin lens placed directly on the surface of the eye.

Contact lenses are considered medical devices and can be worn to correct vision, or for cosmetic or therapeutic reasons.

In 2004, it was estimated that 125 million people (2%) use contact lenses worldwide, including 28 to 38 million in the United States.

In 2010, worldwide market for contact lenses was estimated at $6.1 billion, while the US soft lens market was estimated at $2.1 billion.

Multiple analysts estimated that the global market for contact lenses would reach $11.7 billion by 2015., the average age of contact lens wearers globally was 31 years old, and two-thirds of wearers were female.

Glasses, also known as eyeglasses or spectacles, are devices consisting of glass or hard plastic lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically using a bridge over the nose and arms which rest over the ears.

Glasses are typically used for vision correction, such as with reading glasses and glasses used for nearsightedness.

Safety glasses provide eye protection against flying debris for construction workers or lab technicians; these glasses may have protection for the sides of the eyes as well as in the lenses.

Some types of safety glasses are used to protect against visible and near-visible light or radiation.

Glasses are worn for eye protection in some sports, such as squash.

Glasses wearers may use a strap to prevent the glasses from falling off during movement or sports.

Wearers of glasses that are used only part of the time may have the glasses attached to a cord that goes around their neck, to prevent the loss of the glasses.

An eyeglass prescription is an order written by an eyewear prescriber, such as an optometrist or ophthalmologist, that specifies the value of all parameters the prescriber has deemed necessary to construct and/or dispense corrective lenses appropriate for a patient.

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