QUOTE(kryogenix @ Nov 28 2004, 5:14 PM)
honestly, neither is the solution to poor eyesight. contacts and glasses treat the syptom, not the problem. the problem is the change of shape of the lens in your eye, so light is bent the wrong way and objects are out of focus. Glasses/Contacts compensate for this bending. However, the true solution would be laser surgery (expensive) or special contacts that bend your lenses back into shape (very expensive, yes they do have these, they're kinda like braces, but instead of bending teeth it bends your lenses).
You sure you don't mean cornea? I have corneal corrective lenses. They aren't THAT expensive. It's like $400 a year for me or something like that. Cheaper than my braces, I'll tell you that. Of course insurance doesn't cover the cost of these lenses so we pay full price. When I first got them back in June 16th, 1997 I was one of the youngest patients to get them, they cost me well over $1,000 then. It would be pretty hard to shape the lens from outside the eye. But my lenses don't give me 20/20 vision so that kind of sucks, my doctor says my vision is about 20/20 but even if it is, it's pretty blurry. Everything looks good with the lenses on though since my doc says that then my vision is like 20/15.
