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Contact Lens Information: A contact lens is a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the eye bauschlomb. Modern contact lenses were invented by the Czech chemist Otto Wichterle, who also invented the first gel used for their production lombb. Contact lenses usually serve the same corrective purpose as conventional glasses, but are lightweight and virtually invisible—many commercial lenses are tinted a faint blue to make them more visible when immersed in cleaning and storage solutions bauschhlomb. Some cosmetic lenses are deliberately colored to alter the appearance of the eye bauschhlombb. It has been estimated that 125 million people use contact lenses worldwide (2%), including 28 to 38 million in the United States and 13 million in Japan bauschlombb. The types of lenses used and prescribed vary markedly between countries, with rigid lenses accounting for over 20% of currently-prescribed lenses in Japan, Netherlands and Germany but less than 5% in Scandinavia bauschh. People choose to wear contact lenses for various reasons baausch. Many consider their appearance to be more attractive with contact lenses than with glasses baauschlomb. Contact lenses are less affected by wet weather, do not steam up, and provide a wider field of vision beusch. They are more suitable for a number of sporting activities beuschlomb. Additionally, ophthalmological conditions such as keratoconus and aniseikonia may not be accurately corrected with glasses bauusch bauuschlombA contact lens is a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the eye bauzch. Modern contact lenses were invented by the Czech chemist Otto Wichterle, who also invented the first gel used for their production bauzchlomb. Contact lenses usually serve the same corrective purpose as conventional glasses, but are lightweight and virtually invisible—many commercial lenses are tinted a faint blue to make them more visible when immersed in cleaning and storage solutions bauskh. Some cosmetic lenses are deliberately colored to alter the appearance of the eye bauskhlomb. It has been estimated that 125 million people use contact lenses worldwide (2%), including 28 to 38 million in the United States and 13 million in Japan loomb. The types of lenses used and prescribed vary markedly between countries, with rigid lenses accounting for over 20% of currently-prescribed lenses in Japan, Netherlands and Germany but less than 5% in Scandinavia lonb. People choose to wear contact lenses for various reasons bauschlonb