| There are many more contact lens options available today than ever before. Many of these lenses are complex and hard to fit taking a committment from both the doctor and the patient to succeed. And sometimes contact lenses are the only way that a patient may achieve normal vision. That's an area that we concentrate on. We have more experience with these kinds of contact lenses than almost anyone around.
Bifocal Contact Lenses
Our office has had significant success fitting modern bifocal contact lenses, (available as soft or rigid gas permeable). They don't work like your regular bifocal glasses, though. The contacts are designed with several zones, zones for near correction and zones for distance correction. These zones create a focal point for the eye for near vision and one for distance. It isn't necessary to move your head or position the lens in any way to use both focal points. However, the vision is usually a little affected by the focal point that you're not using. In other words, the vision won't be exactly 20/20 but will still be very good in most cases. Even so, with some types of correction, the bifocal contacts won't meet an individual's visual needs. The only way to know if it will work is to try them!
We have had wonderful success with the Soflens Multifocal by Bausch and Lomb. Click here for more information.
Monovision
MonoVision is a technique using contact lenses that can help you to see distance and read up-close at the same time. MonoVision takes advantage of the fact that most people can see fine for distance with a corrected dominant eye while the non-dominant eye is under-corrected with a contact lens to see close-up. If your distance vision is fine without glasses or contacts, you may simply need one contact lens (a reading contact lens) in your non-dominant eye to help you
read. You would wear one contact lens only!
MonoVision is successful about 50% of the time. MonoVision is just one option, and is not a perfect solution. It enables you to go to a restaurant and read the menu and look across the room when you need to without needing reading glasses. It is great for lecturers who don't want to wear glasses infront of an audience. It can be adjusted for computer use at the awkward mid-range distance that so many of us struggle with. The second the contact lenses are
removed, the vision is back to what it was without correction. The side effects of
monovision are decreased depth perception and may include headaches that tend to go away as you get used to MonoVision. Both these side effects are reversible. It sounds crazy to some people but it works!
Keratoconus
Patients with keratoconus require contact lenses just to see normally. If you've just found out that you have this condition, or have had
it for years and are having trouble with your contacts, give us a call. We offer advanced diagnosis and treatment with state-of-the-art contact lens fitting, designs and materials. And, our laboratory offers what we believe to be the highest quality manufacturing anywhere.
Post-Refractive Surgery
Sometimes patients have complications related to refractive surgery
that requires contact lenses to correct. Whether you had RK "way back when" or are having a problem after LASIK, we can often correct the vision with contact lenses. The first step is a comprehensive in-office evaluation.
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