hello and welcome this is dr alan here from the dr eye health show helping you learn all about the eyes vision and finding the best vision products if you're new here to the channel and you like learning about the eyes and consider hitting that subscribe button down below so that you don't miss any of my future videos now trying to figure out which one is better for you glasses versus contacts can be a little bit tricky because they both have many benefits to them some of the benefits of glasses include being able to easily take them on and off that's sometimes really helpful for some people compared to contacts which are a little bit more maintenance heavy and as far as the lenses go for glasses they have amazing optical quality you can get something from the bargain bin if you want but if you want to see as sharp as you can oftentimes glasses are probably the easiest solution to seeing better on top of that glasses have complete customizable options whether you just want a basic frame to get you by or if you want something a little bit more classy like i have here or if you want something completely wild just to express your artistic style you can get all of those your lenses can be fully customizable based on what type of lens material you want if you want something that's more safety protection do you want something that's maybe got a transition lens that changes into sunglasses there's a lot of different options out there if you're somebody who sees double vision or has like a wandering eye you can get prisms put into your glasses where that's really not too possible with contacts and then if you were somebody who has trouble seeing up close you can even get bifocals trifocals progressive no-line bifocals you can even get a bifocal put on the top of the lens if you really want if you are somebody who maybe works underneath cars like an auto mechanic or an electrician and as far as price for glasses you can go from anywhere from the cheap bargain bin low quality pair of glasses that you can find in some optical shops online to the most expensive extravagant pairs of glasses that are out there some celebrities are even know to pay NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN or more for a single pair of designer glasses now as far as contact lenses goes and yes i am wearing contact lenses underneath these glasses i just want to give you a heads up i am pretty biased toward contacts just because contact lenses changed my life when i first got them when i was NUMBER_TOKEN years old and honestly definitely contributed to me even becoming an eye doctor in the first place some of the reasons i love contact lenses versus glasses is that contact lenses give you the freedom of not having to wear anything on your face especially really good for social engagements as well as sporting activities that's in fact the reason i got into contacts when i was NUMBER_TOKEN anyways because i wanted to play sports and it's kind of hard to play sports with thick coke bottle glasses wearing contact lenses also allows you to wear non-prescription sunglasses a lot easier which is something that i absolutely love to do and then also contact lenses take away some of the motion sickness and kind of distortions that you can get from wearing glasses lenses because when you're wearing glasses your glasses sit about NUMBER_TOKEN millimeters in front of your corneal plane and when you look around through a different part of the lens and shift your eyes around you're going to look through that different part of the lens and that's going to have
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