Residents of Canada will soon be able to buy contact lenses to wear a permanent, made of fabric ...pig.After testing for 141 patient Ministry of Health - the first time in the U.S.- approved the contact lenses made from porcine collagen.Such lenses are biocompatible with the tissues of the human eye, and implantation procedure itself takes only 15-20 minutes, the website Ananova.Dr.Howard Gimbel, director of Gimbel Vision International in Calgary, believes that innovation will benefit only people who suffer from severe myopia or hyperopia, as it is expensive: the implantation of lenses in both eyes will cost around 3,000 dollars."Pork" lens produces an American company Staar.They are smaller than conventional contact lenses and implanted under the iris, just before his own eye lens.
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