Gain Clarity & Freedom with Contact Lenses

Contact lenses are an excellent and popular alternative to eyeglasses. There’s such an impressive selection of contact lens types that there’s likely something to suit every budget, ocular need, and lifestyle.

Contact lenses sit directly on the eyes, so they require a bit more preparation and adjustment than glasses do. But they come with so many benefits that many patients find this adjustment worth it. If you’ve been thinking about trying contacts, why wait? Call our team at Lemon Grove Optometry to book a comprehensive contact lens exam and fitting. We’ll help you find a clarity of vision you never imagined possible!

How Contact Lens Exams Are Different

The Exam

A contact lens exam is similar to a routine eye exam but with a few extra steps. Just like your regular eye exam, your optometrist will update your prescription (but specific to contact lenses) and assess your overall eye health. They’ll specifically look for health issues that may interfere with the comfort of your contact lenses.

Some factors that may inhibit with your ability to wear contacts include:

Frequent eye infections
Eye allergies
Dry eye disease
Live or work in a dry, dusty, or smoky environment

Even if you have an eye condition, there may be a specialty lens available to help you see clearly. After all, 90% of patients who want to wear contacts can!

The Fitting

Properly fitted contacts are comfortable, clear, and safe. A contact lens fitting involves a series and tests and measurements to ensure you receive the best fitting contacts for your eyes:

Corneal Curvature: The cornea is the clear dome on the front of your eye. Its curvature is measured to determine the best style and fit of lens for your unique corneal shape.
Pupil and Iris Size: These measurements are especially useful for fitting specialty contact lenses, like gas-permeable lenses.
Tear Film Evaluation: A tear film evaluation will help your optometrist determine if your eyes produce enough tears to keep them hydrated with contact lens wear. Dry eye disease can make contact lenses uncomfortable.

Once we narrow down your contact lens options, we’ll make a decision based on your preferences and lifestyle choices before sending you home with a trial pair. After a couple of weeks, we’ll bring you in for a follow-up exam to assess how your eyes are adjusting to contact lenses.

Caring for Your Contact Lenses

Contact lenses do come with some risks. To lower your chances of infection, it’s important to properly handle and care for your contact lenses.

How you care for your lenses depends on what type they are. Regardless of the style, however, every lens requires thorough, regular cleaning and proper storage.

Follow all instructions given by your optometrist and the lens manufacturer, buy sterile, commercially-prepared saline solutions, and only handle your contact lenses with clean, dry hands. Your optometrist will make sure you know how to care for your lenses and will go over all the specifications with you during your fitting.

If you’re excited to try contacts, we’re excited to help! Call us today and book a contact lens exam and fitting.

Our Brands

ACUVUE

The options are nearly endless when it comes to ACUVUE® brand contact lenses – the #1 contact lens brand in the world. Long-lasting comfort and clear vision can be yours with a contact lens in the ACUVUE® brand family.

Air Optix

Utilizing silicon hydrogel technology, Air Optix contact lenses are well known for comfort and oxygen permeability. They are available in a variety of prescriptions and varieties, including toric lenses.

Bausch + Lomb

Bausch + Lomb is one of the best-known and most respected healthcare brands globally, offering the widest and finest range of eye health products including contact lenses and lens care products, pharmaceuticals, intraocular lenses, and other eye surgery products.

Biofinity

Unlike many other silicone hydrogel lenses, Biofinity contact lenses incorporate a naturally wettable material that maintains a hydrophilic (water-loving) property throughout the lens. This means no surface treatments, additives, coatings, or wetting agents are needed.

Cooper My Day

CooperVision® MyDay® lenses feature everything you need for an exceptional overall daily disposable experience: all-day comfort, easy lens insertion and removal, and a highly breathable lens that helps provides a healthier lens-wearing experience.

Cooper Vision

We create and execute innovation that is unmatched in the contact lens industry. There's much more to our story than that, however. You'll find that what sets us apart is how we approach our business. We collaborate, we listen, and we enjoy what we do.

CooperVision Proclear

Proclear by CooperVision are a line of daily-disposable contact lenses with options available for nearly every corrective lens prescription need, including options for astigmatism. They feature Phosphorylcholine, a material that attracts water and encourages healthy eye hydration.

Dailies Total 1

Excellent comfort until the end of the day with breathable construction. This lens is designed to provide a surface that’s over 80% water, mimicking the same as the surface of your eye. Dailies Total 1 provide a new era in daily disposables.