11.   Some manufacturers plan to introduce permeable soft lenses over the next year, he added.

12.   This means that a child who is fitted with soft lenses can get used to them in a matter of days.

13.   Ciba Vision said the lenses are the first high-oxygen, extended-wear soft lens of their kind in the United States.

14.   Even wearing soft lenses that are not disposable and removing them every night did not eliminate the infection risk.

15.   In the procedure, a cataract was removed and a soft lens inserted to strengthen the vision in his right eye, Basu said.