- By Amy Nutt
- Published 22 April 2009
- Health
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Contact lenses are a great alternative to prescription eyeglasses for many people. They are small, curved lenses that fit right over your eye and provide vision correction for common vision problems such as astigmatism, myopia, presbyopia and more. One of the greatest benefits of contact lenses over eyeglasses is that it frees one from having to wear bulky eyeglass frames on their face.