Dr. Mike Irons - Optometrist

Serving Columbus, Indiana area since 1971.
"We Always Welcome New Patients"
ADDRESS:
2750 Central Avenue
Columbus, IN 47201

Phone: 812.379.4465

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Daily Disposable Contact Lenses

 Fresh lenses every day and no cleaning/storing or solution chemicals
And for less money yearly than most 2-week spherical contacts*
 And only about 50 cents more a day for astigmatism lenses (torics)*

*Based on estimated solution costs for 2-week lenses and including all rebates and discounts available for changing to one-day contacts.

Why put chemicals in your eyes?  Why clean and store lenses? Go Green. Daily disposable lenses come stored in a single blister pack in a buffered saline solution.  Buffered means the ph is adjusted to match the ph of the tears without all the common solution chemicals so there may be no burning or stinging upon insertion of your contacts. Since you insert new lenses daily with one-day contacts, you don't buy or use cleaning chemicals.

All contact lens solutions have been approved by the FDA as safe to use with certain warnings (see product inserts).   Contact Lens complications associated with solutions   However, why put all these chemicals in your eyes when there is a better, healthier, and possibly less expensive way to wear contacts.  This is not to mention the mess, time, cost, and inconvenience.  The contact lens manufacturers have something better for you.

When you insert contacts in your eyes, the chemicals they have been cleaned with and stored in go into your eyes as well.  These chemicals remain in your eyes and lenses throughout the day and weeks ahead.  The cornea, which the contact covers and rides on, receives the majority of its oxygen and nourishment through tear absorption.  Not only are your tears absorbed into your eyes, but these by-products and unused chemicals in your lenses are absorbed in your body as well.  Where do they go from there?.  

These are some of the chemicals found in contact lens solutions..
  • myristamidopropyl dimethylamine (Aldox®)
  • sodium citrate
  • sodium chloride
  • sodium borate
  • propylene glycol
  • nonanoyl ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (Tetronic®)
  • hydroxyalkylphosphonate (Hydranate®)
  • boric acid
  • edetate disodium
  • poloxamine
  • polyaminopropyl biguanide (Dymed®)
  • hydrogen peroxide
Estimated yearly cost of contact lens solutions:       
A July 2002 study reported in Contact Lens Spectrum estimated yearly cost of solutions, if lenses are cleaned and disinfected according to FDA recommendations and drug approval  protocol.  This is an excellent article about the yearly cost of solutions, as well as the procedure for proper lens care.  A summary of the article follows.  

In April 2002 the average retail prices (Portland, Oregon area) of the four study solutions were:
  • Complete® $7.53 
  • Opti-Free Express® $7.25
  • ReNu MultiPlus® $7.77 
  • AOSept Clear Care® $8.01
The computed yearly cost for solutions in 2002 if  used  as recommended by the FDA and package inserts is as follows:

  • Complete®: $436.74 per year or $1.20 per day
  • Opti-Free Express®: $369.75 per year or $1.01 per day
  • ReNu MultiPlus®: $194.25 per year or $0.53 per day
  • AOSept Clear Care®: $152.19 per year or $0.42 per day 
    Note: These are 2002 costs.  The present costs could be significantly higher. It is not only the cost of solutions but the convenience, overall comfort, safety,
    and  lower cost for many one-day contacts with NO chemicals that one should consider.  With one-day lenses there is no wondering if  your lenses are clean--you know they are clean as you insert new lenses daily.  The healthiest, safest way to wear contacts.

    Call our office at 812-379-4465 if you have questions about one-day lenses or to schedule an appointment.
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