Eye Gallery Boutique - Contact Lenses

Contacts

The Eye Gallery offers an extensive line of contact lenses for everyone and our doctors can help you find the type that is just right for you! We offer:

Soft spherical contact lenses Soft toric contact lenses for astigmatism Soft multifocal and bifocal contact lenses Colored soft contact lenses Gas permeable contact lenses Gas permeable multifocal and bifocal contact lenses Orthokeratology lenses Custom wave lenses for: Keratoconus Pellucid marginal degeneration Irregular astigmatism Post refractive surgery patients

There are many different types of contact lenses. Reviewing this information before scheduling a contact lens fitting at the Eye Gallery can help you and our doctors find a lens that will best meet all of your needs and requirements.

Types of Contact Lenses

Soft Contact Lenses

Soft contact lenses are made of soft and flexible materials. There are numerous companies and brands of soft contact lenses. Some of the newer soft lenses allow an extensive amount of oxygen to reach the cornea providing better overall ocular health. These lenses are typically more comfortable than gas permeable, or hard, contact lenses. There are several subdivisions within the soft contact lens category. These include:

• Spherical soft contact lenses - For patients with little to no astigmatism correction • Toric soft contact lenses - For patients who have moderate to higher amounts of astigmatism • Multifocal soft contact lenses - For patients with Presbyopia. Presbyopia is a term that refers to difficulty reading up close. Symptoms of presbyopia will typically become evident in a patient’s early 40’s. These lenses provide clearer vision at distance, intermediate, and near viewing for patients with mild to moderate presbyopia.


Gas Permeable Contact Lenses

Gas permeable contact lenses are made of a “harder” material than soft contact lenses. These lenses have a longer adaptation period than soft lenses however they tend to provide crisper and clearer vision especially for patients with astigmatism and other corneal conditions. Gas permeable lenses last a significantly longer time than soft contact lenses. Therefore it is recommended that these lenses be changed about once a year for optimal vision and ocular health.

Approved Wear Schedules for Contact Lenses

Soft Contact Lenses

• Daily wear - Worn during the day and placed in solution overnight to remove deposits and disinfect the lenses

• Extended wear - Approved for overnight wear from one night up to one month

• Continuous wear - Approved for continuous wear for up to one week or one month at a time

Gas Permeable Contact Lenses

• Daily wear - Worn during the day and placed in solution overnight to remove deposits and disinfect the lenses

• Extended wear - Approved for overnight wear from one night up to one month

Approved Replacement Schedules

• Daily disposables - Worn for one day only and then thrown away, not approved for sleep or extended wear

• Two week lenses - Worn for up to two weeks daily, extended, or continuous wear depending on the brand of lens

• Monthly lenses -Worn for up to one month daily, extended, or continuous wear depending on the brand of lens

• Quarterly lenses - Worn for up to three months daily wear, not used as commonly as daily, two week, or monthly lenses any longer

• Yearly lenses - Worn for up to one year daily wear as in the case of yearly conventional soft lenses and gas permeable lenses

Replacement Schedules

Types of Contact Lens Fits

Distance Vision Fitting

With a distance vision contact lens fit, both eyes are fit for optimal distance vision only. Patients with presbyopia may still need to wear readers over the top of these lenses for near tasks.



Don't want to wear reading glasses? You have options!

Multifocal Fitting

Multifocal contact lenses are designed to provide patients with comfortable vision at distance, intermediate, and near. Multifocal fits can be obtained with the use of soft and gas permeable lenses and can provide an alternative to reading glasses.


Monovision Fitting

In monovision contact lens fitting the dominant eye is fit for optimal distance vision whereas the non-dominant eye is fit for optimal near vision. The goal of this type of contact lens fit is to eliminate your dependence on glasses for distance and near viewing.

Specialty Contact Lenses

Custom Wave Lenses

At the Eye Gallery, we have some of the most advanced contact lens technology in the eye care world. Our Keratron Scout topographer takes a high quality scan of all of the irregularities found on the front surface of the eye allowing our doctors to design gas permeable lenses that significantly increase the ease of fitting, clarity of vision, and overall patient comfort. These lenses can be designed for patients with keratoconus, pellucid marginal degeneration, irregular astigmatism, and those who have undergone post refractive surgery.


Orthokeratology Lenses

Orthokeratology lenses are gas permeable lenses that are designed to change the curvature of your cornea in the goal of reducing the degree of nearsightedness. These lenses are worn at night to flatten the cornea and temporarily correct your vision during the day. The results are similar to LASIK however no surgery is required. These lenses must be worn every night for at least eight hours to obtain maximum results. In the morning, they are removed to allow the patient to go most of the day without contact lenses or glasses. Typically the vision obtained with these lenses will last the majority of the day however every patient’s cornea is different and some patients will find that the correction may wear off before the day is up. The results obtained with orthokeratology are temporary and fully reversible unlike LASIK surgery. Therefore the patient can discontinue treatment at any time without permanent changes to the cornea.


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