These days’ contact lenses are much more preferred and accessible to the people. Lens cost more price than the glasses as the glasses don’t need to be replaced often and require less maintenance too. Also, while wearing glasses you don’t have to touch your eyes unlike the contact lenses, infection risk is very less. However, there are many pros too when choosing lenses over the glasses.

Below are few pros and cons of wearing the contact lenses and not the glasses:

Pros of contact lenses

For any common people, you always feel more attractive without the glasses on your nose and shall always prefer wearing contact lenses so that it will never interfere with the wardrobe. Below are some other advantages of wearing contact lenses:

• Like the glasses, the contact lenses also provide vision correction.
• Whenever participating in the outdoor and indoor activities, you don’t need to be concerned about losing the glasses as well as there will less facial injuries wearing the lenses. Even simple fun times with the children, the lenses are safer than the glasses.
• Contacts are known to provide better side vision than eyeglasses as wearing glasses impairs your peripheral vision.
• Lenses don’t need any kind of adjustments like the glasses and usually stay in place and are less distracting.
• Lenses are not affected by the weather and also they don’t fog up.
• A wide range of lens types is available to meet individual needs.

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Cons of contact lenses

People tend to be excited when they get their first contact lenses. With the lenses, they come some negative realities right after or with time. Though wearing lenses may sound like a good idea, they are some negative consequences on wearing contact lenses:

• Wearing the lenses can be uncomfortable and also it can make your eyes dry or even worse affecting the health of your eyes.
• Cleaning and sanitizing the lenses can be complicated and inconvenient. Very good hand-eye coordination is needed to clean, insert, and remove the lenses.
• Contact lenses increase the risk of corneal infections, corneal scratches, ulcers, and inflammations. Many patients don’t care about the morning and nighttime care and maintenance.
• Wearing contact lenses is quite expensive and can cost at least $150 per year which includes the costs of cleaning and disinfecting solutions. But the cost of the lenses may vary according to the type of lens you wear.
• Lenses can be easily damaged or lost if the people are careless.