Types Of Contacts Lenses We Offer

We offer several different types of contacts to match your needs:

• Soft Contacts – These contacts are made from a special plastic and water mix. It allows air to get to the cornea. This makes them more comfortable to wear, helps keep the cornea healthy and lessens dry eye. They are disposable, convenient and affordable.
• Disposable Contacts – These are single-use lenses people can discard each night and insert a fresh pair each morning. They are very convenient and help to keep the eyes healthy.
• Rigid Gas Permeable (RGP) – These are a special type of contact lens that is often called a “hard” contact lens. These lenses provide superior vision to soft lenses in most cases and can last much longer!
• Ortho-Keratology (CRT) – These are a rigid lens that you sleep in to reshape the front of the eye. When you wake up, you remove the lens and can now see clearly in the distance without glasses on!
• Scleral Contact Lenses – These are a specialized larger rigid contact lens. These are meant to correct for many corneal disorders such as keratoconus, corneal ectasia, corneal scarring, and many others. This is a lens that Dr. Nick specifically specializes in fitting for single vision and multifocal.
• Hybrid Contact Lenses – These are another specialized lens that is a combination of a rigid lens, with a soft lens attached to it. This allows for improved comfort over a traditional RGP lens, but still allows for similar vision to an RGP lens. Dr. Soper specializes in fitting these in single vision and multifocal.

The First Step For Getting Contacts

When you’re trying to decide if contacts are right for you, the first step should be to get your eyes examined.

Our experienced doctors and staff can identify your vision problem, write a prescription, let you know if contacts can solve your vision problem and recommend the right one for you. A contact eye exam can reveal even minor issues with your vision that can impact which contacts you should choose.

If you’re interested as a new wearer, please let us know when you come in for your examination so your doctor can discuss options with you and whether or not you are a suitable candidate for contact lenses. From there, we can begin your fitting process.

Updated, More Accurate Prescriptions

Contact lens prescriptions are valid for 1 to 2 years depending certain circumstances. Patients are required to have an updated contact lens exam (by law) when their current prescription has expired in order to make sure that their eyes are still healthy enough to support contact lens wear.

During these examinations, your doctor also will often discuss your cleaning habits, contact lens solution types, or even different style lenses that may suit your visual needs more than your current lenses.

Often times patients come in saying everything is fine with their current lenses and they just need an updated prescription. After our discussion, if we try something new, many patients realize how much better newer technology can be!

Glasses Versus Contact Lenses

People with vision problems often choose contacts over glasses for a number of reasons. Some of those reasons include:

Complete Eye Coverage – Contacts cover the entire cornea and conform to the eye’s curvature. Many people say this helps to make their vision better across their entire field of view.

Great For Sports – Wearing glasses while playing sports can challenging. It’s easy for glasses to shift, slip, fall and break from the rough and tumble activity. Someone would have to poke you in the eye to knock contacts loose.

More Convenient – Glasses can be an inconvenience to many people. They have to be handled with care, kept in a special case to prevent breakage and scratches, and it must be cleaned several times daily. With contacts, there is minimal maintenance and you’ll often forget you’re wearing them.

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