EYE CARE EDUCATION
Health Insights
The Origins of Contact Lenses
The first time that the concept of changing visual defects by altering the refractive surface of the eye was conceptualised, was when Leonardo da Vince (in 1508) took poorly sighted people to the top of a castle and had them immerse their faces in water of different shaped glass bowls.
Scleral Contact Lenses
Scleral lenses are the latest breakthrough in contacts, having revisited and perfected the original scleral contact lens idea from 1508AD (Leonardo da Vinci).
