Contact Lenses
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I have seen significant technological improvement in contact lens related products in my 40+ years of Optometry practice. The vast majority of those advances were noted earlier in my career and upgrading has now become more limited.
I am very pleased with the evolution of contact lens materials and solutions and think the evolution of improvements has almost reached a crescendo. There is now a contact lens and wearing modality available for almost anyone with the motivation to wear contact lenses. |
Contact lenses should not be considered a total substitute for glasses, but in some refractive situations they actually provide a better more accurate solution for the best quality of vision. I have always believed it is good to give your eyes a periodic break from wearing the contacts all waking hours for daily wear patients and also a pause for those who continuously sleep with their lenses. With the advancement of soft lens materials, which now are much more oxygen permeable and wettable, the lenses are generally stay more comfortable for longer periods of wear. There is one brand the FDA has even approved for 30 days of continuous extended wear, although my research has concluded that is a little "too much extended wear". The contact lens companies have also expanded the specific parameters of their contact lens product lines to fit a much broader range of prescriptions. Patients in the presbyopic age group and those with significant amounts of astigmatism can now be fit with comfortable contacts, which provide almost equivalent vision to spectacle correction. It is necessary for patients who wear contacts on a regular basis to be seen yearly for a comprehensive examination and have their contact lens prescription updated. For more information on contacts: please read my article on "Proper Wear and Care of Contact Lenses" on this website found under the Doctor Articles link on my homepage.
Practically all contact lenses now come packaged in six-packs and are dispensed and prescribed according to the manufactures recommended wearing schedule for a particular lens, which is typically daily disposable, 1 or 2 week disposable, or monthly replacement. I may propose an alternative schedule if I think it would be more suitable for a particular patient's ocular health or visual demands. There are a number of contact lens companies, but I have had the most success fitting a wide range of patients with just a few of the companies and their specific line of lenses. Listed below is my current contact lens price list of the lenses I generally fit. Through my distributor, I am also able to obtain dozens of other specific contact lenses. I also have fitting sets of the lenses in stock that I most typically prescribe and am able to supply a patient with a free replacement if a lens obtained from my office in a complete yearly purchased supply becomes lost or damaged prior to the expected life of the lens. If requested, lenses can be dropped shipped from my distributor directly to your designated location.
