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CORRECT YOUR VISION WHILE YOU SLEEP
Tired of glasses but leery of Lasik surgery? There is another way. T
he first thing Brittany Walker does when she wakes up every morning is take out her contact lenses. For the rest of the day,
“Perfect vision,” she says. The Fayetteville teenager achieved it not through surgery nor glasses, not even
a standard pair of contact lenses, but thanks to custom retainer lenses that she wears while she sleeps. The technique is called K-Vision (also
known as Ortho-K). The name is new, but the idea has been around for more than 40 years when doctors first realized that vision could be corrected non-surgically simply by reshaping the cornea. Today,
modern computerized technology is used to map the surface of the eye to design a special type of retainer lens that corrects your vision while you sleep. These lenses are a far cry from the lenses used 40 years ago and are actually healthier for the eye than the more-popular soft contacts lenses used today. These retainer lenses don’t actually touch the eye but instead
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