Can you get such a thing as extended wear (overnight), coloured contact lenses?!


Question:

Can you get such a thing as extended wear (overnight), coloured contact lenses?

I wear dark brown coloured lenses all the time (they have a power too), I liked the idea of extended wear lenses but I've never seen them available in colours. Does such a lens exist or do coloured lenses need to made out of a material which makes them unsuitable for extended wear?

Obviously I'm not interested in wearing regular contact lenses overnight, I'd like to get proper ones.

Thanks in advance :)

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2 months ago
I'm confused now because I've just noticed Acuvue 2 colours say you can wear them for 2 weeks or 6 days continuously? Surely that means overnight?


Answers:

i gotta agree with prince again on this one....so far there is no FDA approved colored conatact lens for overnight use. Acuvue has colored acuvue 2 lenses, but these are not approved for extended wear. Acuvue plans to bring a colored version of the acuvue advance to the market, however, they are having difficulty when adding the color to the contact and still achieving a high enough Dk value, the number that is looked at to determine if a lens is "breatheable" enough to sleep in....so bad news, no overnight colors.




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