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Determining What Style of Contact Lens You Have

If your contact lens prescription contains numbers for a cylinder (cyl) and axis you require toric or gas permeable contact lenses. If your prescription does NOT contain a cylinder or axis component you had a spherical style of prescription, which means you do not need correction for an astigmatism.

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