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Contact Lenses
Today there are more convenient and healthy contact lens choices than ever before. Whatever your vision challenge, it can probably be met with an array of specialty contact lenses for individual vision needs.
- Tips for new contact lens wearers.
The most important time saving and discomfort ending tip has to do with the few minutes right after a contact lens is inserted in the eye. All contact wearers but especially new wearers will often feel a burning or a foreign body sensation when the lens is first on the eye. This is almost always due to a slight bit of dryness or a speck of dust on the lens. The solution is to look up and use your finger to drag the lens to the lower white part of the eye, and then gently move the lens left to right 4 or 5 times and then drag it back up. This will usually solve the problem.
Remember to always insert a wet contact lens with a dry finger and dry eyelids(we understand that this is easier said than done but give it a try, it helps).
- Bifocal and Multifocal Contact Lenses
If you need correction for presbyopia but dislike the idea of bifocal eyeglasses, you have many contact lens options.
- Gas Permeable (GP) Contact Lenses
These rigid lenses aren’t as popular or well-known as soft lenses, but they offer the advantages of durability, crisp vision and high oxygen permeability.
- Contact Lenses for the "Hard-to-Fit" Patient
Challenges such as astigmatism, presbyopia, keratoconus and dry eyes needn’t be a barrier to contact lens wear, but they do require more time and patience.
- Orthokeratology
What if you could wear contacts while sleeping, and then see clearly during the day without them? It might sound like magic, but it’s a time-tested reality called ortho-k.
- Toric Contact Lenses for Astigmatism
“I can’t wear soft contacts; I have astigmatism.” This once-true statement is now simply a myth.
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