Do Glasses give better vision than RGP contacts?!
Question: I am getting my first pair of RGP contacts and my doctor, who happened to be wearing glasses, said glasses give better vision than any contact. She said that the movement of the lens when you blink makes your vision temporarily worse while glassees give you stable vision. Is this true? She also said that RGP's won't help the starbursting and ghosting vision I get. Does she know what shes talking about because she didn't even test to see if I had Higher Order Abberatins? I felt like I was getting encouraged to stick with glasses by the contact lens lady lol!
Answers: I am getting my first pair of RGP contacts and my doctor, who happened to be wearing glasses, said glasses give better vision than any contact. She said that the movement of the lens when you blink makes your vision temporarily worse while glassees give you stable vision. Is this true? She also said that RGP's won't help the starbursting and ghosting vision I get. Does she know what shes talking about because she didn't even test to see if I had Higher Order Abberatins? I felt like I was getting encouraged to stick with glasses by the contact lens lady lol!
RGP's transmit more oxygen to the cornea than soft lenses do , so that is not a problem.
Your dr. seems to be giving you information about them that is normally just the opposite of what is true of RGP lenses.
You should be getting a crisper, clearer vision with them , than with glasses.
If it is fitted right and stays centered right when you blink, then there shouldn't be any abberation problems.
And being a spherical lens, it shouldn't blur when you blink either. If it does, then it isn't fitted right.
I don't know when you were experiencing starburst abberations, or ghosting, if that was with glasses, or without, or with soft lenses....but those problems should normally be eliminated by RGP.s....IF they are fitted perfectly.
Maybe your Dr. is trying to discourage you because she doesn't have much experience with them herself.
of course. using contacts can even worsen your vision status. it is because contacts minimizes the entry of Oxygen in our eyes.
glasses always been a suprim in vison care technology,apart from bifocals we tri and multi focals for best vison, in contacts you have all training to wear and remove, training to preserve for next day use. training to live with this. for contacts you need to have, for best image perception more than -7.00 or +6.00. spectacle lens are little heavy and not expensive,whereas the contacts are expensive always your small myopia and your contacts are only for cosmetic purpose
Well i dont see where you should have RGPs instead of soft lenses, but glasses mostly do give clearer crisper vision. The thing with RGP lenses is it takes a good couple of hours for those lenses to settle on your eye and to get the best vision. RGP lenses move everytime you blink so you do have blurry vision temporarily.I think she does know what she is talking about. she is just trying to give you the best vision.
Both can be better, depending on the eyes .
While RGP contacts will correct any aberrations due to the front surface of the cornea, (without measuring it) which glasses will not, they will not correct for any lenticular astigmatism (1 in 10 people, roughly).
There is also the question of movement on a blink, or rapid eye movement, and flare if the optical zone of the contact lens is not large enough (especially at night, with a large pupil). Sometimes it can't be, and maintain good comfort/thickness with the contact lens.
While a spectacle lens can offer correction of total astigmatism, not just that on the front corneal surface, and doesn't have the optic zone limitation of a contact lens, and in those respects can offer better vision, it does not deal with any front surface corneal irregularity or aberration, and, because it does not move with eye, quality of correction can fall off when the eye glances through the extremes of the lens without turning the head.
Swings and roundabouts.
Depending on the curvature of your cornea, pupil size, depth of anterior chamber, lenticular astigmatism...
It could be either.