Here's some good news for people who don't like to wear glasses and are uncomfortable with contact lenses: Thanks to technology, it's now possible to wake up with perfect vision. Laser surgery, you ask? Nope, not laser surgery.

Ortho-K, derived from Orthokeratology, was discovered 40 years ago by opticians after noticing that some patients gained better eyesight after they removed their contact lenses. They discovered that like braces, which are used to correct teeth alignment, vision can also be corrected by applying gentle pressure on the eye in the right places.

David Thomas, an optician who also uses Ortho-K, explains,

Ortho-K is similar to an orthodontist using a brace to straighten teeth. We take extremely accurate and detailed measurements of your eyes. We then have a pair of hard contact lenses made up with a curvature calculated to squeeze each eye gently in the right places to correct a range of short-sighted and astigmatic prescriptions.