Fix Farsightedness by Sleeping in Your Contacts
What if you could go to sleep with a vision problem and wake up with a crystal-clear view of the world? A Spanish optometrist not only says this is possible, but he actually wants you to sleep in your contacts. His patented contact lenses, designed to achieve the same effect of corneal reshaping surgery, can correct vision defects like myopia (nearsightedness) and stigmatism - and now hyperopia (farsightedness) - without taking sharp instruments or lasers to your eyes. Reshaping the cornea is a tricky business, of course, and generally requires a surgical procedure to permanently fix the problem. But Jaume Paune's corrective lenses don't aim to permanently reshape the corneas at all, but rather to temporarily reshape them each night while you sleep. Every cornea deformation is a bit different, so there's no one-size-fits-all approach to fixing the problem - hence the usual need for surgery if a patient doesn't want to...