Daily wear contact lenses are typical; that is, one-day wear is a common duration of use for a contact lens. Although many contact lenses today are made to last for up to two weeks, a month, or even a year or more, many contact lenses are still made for a day’s use. As a matter of fact, every known brand today makes both a 1 Day contact lens and extended wear contact lens, which is defined as any contact lens that can safely be worn for more than a day.

Any daily wear contact lens, like an extended wear or any other type of contact lens, must be obtained only after an eye exam and with the submission of a valid contact lens prescription. Many non-prescription contact lenses still exist and are being sold, but most, if not all, daily wear contact lenses are corrective, so they require a prescription, without exception. The reason for this is that eye damage has occurred with many people, especially teenagers, because the contact lenses obtained were either the wrong type for the intended wearer or because the contact lenses were handled improperly. Nevertheless, regulation on contact lenses now mandates that all contact lenses, including novelty and cosmetic contact lenses, can only be purchased with an exam and a valid prescription from a licensed eye care specialist so that the said contact lenses will have a safe and custom-fit. The daily wear contact lenses are all this way.

One very popular daily wear brand is Acuvue. ® The 1 Day Acuvue® contact lenses provide not only serve as correctives for certain visual aberrations, such as the daily wear toric contact lenses or the daily wear bifocal contact lenses, but also come in an array of bright colors, like variations in blue and green, not to mention gray, brown, and even multiple color combinations. The 1 Day Acuvue® contact lens, then, is not only corrective, but cosmetic as well, which, perhaps, explains why they are popular and therefore commonly used.

Many daily wear contact lenses are available online and offline. For those who want to look for deals, daily wear contact lenses can be found throughout the Internet, at designated licensed vendor. These vendors (and only the reputable ones) will insist on a prescription, so those interested should obtain the necessary documents before attempting to buy any contact lenses. This applies to both daily wear and extended wear contact lenses.

Daily wear contact lenses certainly don’t provide the ongoing treatment and comfort that extended wear contact lenses do, but they are convenient and cheap, so anyone can afford them. For this reason alone, daily wear contacts have found themselves a niche and are still on the market.