Contact lenses can be a nice change from your prescription glasses while offering the same clear vision. Insights Optical offers comprehensive contact lens exams and fittings to fulfill your unique vision needs.
Our thorough contact lens exam is designed around our patient’s vision goals and needs. Book your contact lens exam today to get your new set of contact lenses.
Contact lenses are worn to correct refractive errors such as myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), and astigmatism.
Our team will guide you through a comprehensive contact lens exam and fitting to determine how your eyes react to different lenses.
At Insights Optical, the patient experience is of the utmost importance, so our contact lens services are designed around finding our patients the right fit for their visual needs.
Your contact lens exam will include tests and measurements to determine that your contact lenses fit correctly and comfortably.
Your eye doctor will check your visual acuity to determine how well you see letters and symbols from a distance, similar to a comprehensive eye exam. Your eye doctor will also review your lifestyle needs and preferences to build your contact lens profile.
Following your evaluation, your doctor will confirm whether your eyes produce enough tears for comfortable and safe contact lens usage.
Contact lenses fall under 2 main categories, soft contact lenses, and rigid gas permeable (RGP).
Soft contact lenses are made of soft, flexible plastics that allow oxygen to pass through to the cornea. Newer materials include silicone-hydrogels to provide even more oxygen for your eyes.
RGP lenses are more durable than soft contact lenses and usually last longer. RGP lenses require a longer adjustment period, and it can take up to a few weeks for your eyes to fully adjust.
These 2 categories include other specialized contact lenses that are used to correct various vision problems.
MiSight myopia control lenses are soft contact lenses designed to help correct nearsightedness in children. These lenses not only correct myopia but work to slow the progression of myopia in children aged 8 to 12 at the beginning of treatment.
Your children can experience clear vision with MiSight myopia control contact lenses.
Toric lenses are designed to help correct astigmatism. These lenses are available in both soft and gas-permeable designs. Toric lenses contain multiple powers, one vertical and the other horizontal, to allow the lenses to center correctly on the eye.
Toric lenses generally require more time to fit, and you may need additional fitting help from your eye doctor.
Bifocal contacts have more than one power and allow patients to have clear vision at near and far distances. Bifocal contact lenses are available in both soft and gas-permeable designs and can be used to correct age-related presbyopia, astigmatism, myopia, and hyperopia.
Disposable contact lenses are soft lenses that can be discarded on a daily, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis.
Because of the regular replacement schedule, protein deposits that can affect vision, comfort, and overall eye health do not build up like they can with longer use contact lenses. Disposable contact lenses are low-maintenance, however staying consistent with the replacement schedule is essential.
Extended wear contact lenses come in the gas-permeable or soft lenses style and are designed for up to 30 days of continuous safe wear.
Sleeping in extended wear contact lenses can pose a higher risk of infection and abnormal blood vessel growth in the cornea. These lenses require frequent follow-ups with your eye doctor.
Tinted or cosmetic contact lenses are soft lenses that allow patients to change the color of their iris. These lenses come in various colors and can provide a subtle or dramatic change in your eyes.
The fitting process is vital to determine your comfort and vision correction levels while wearing your new contact lenses. The fitting process begins with assessing the health of your cornea using a biomicroscope. This process gives your eye doctor a magnified view of your cornea to determine if you can wear contact lenses without issue.
Following testing, you’ll be fitted with trial contact lenses, and follow-up appointments will be scheduled to confirm your lenses fit comfortably and safely.
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.
Inspired by the natural biology of the eye, BioTrue offers patients all day comfort and crisp, clear vision. Using the natural moisture levels of the eye and designed to mimic your own tear’s hydration on the surface of the lens, BioTrue Dailies have a 91% satisfaction rate with patients. Of course, High Definition Optics and UV protection come standard.
All Clariti 1-Day lenses feature high water content — a key feature for comfort. AquaGen™ technology makes it possible. The AquaGen™ process creates a lens that naturally attracts and binds water molecules to the lens surface, so your eyes can stay moist and comfortable throughout your day.
Convenient replacement schedule, all-day wearability, these are the features people want in a weekly disposable product. Look no further because Biomedics lenses feature a thinner, patented edge design that provides excellent comfort. What the user gains is enhanced image quality regardless of how long they wear them.
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® contact lenses are designed with advanced technologies to provide exceptional vision and comfort.
FreshLook® COLORBLENDS® contact lenses use 3-in-1 color technology for a naturally beautiful look, whether you want a dramatic transformation or subtle enhancement. Even if your vision is perfect, experience a fresh, new look that's always you.
Precision Contact Lenses carry 34 years of quality and innovation with them. All of these special lenses are made to order, providing vision quality and comfort tailored to your exact needs.
Bausch + Lomb PureVision contact lenses are made using AerGel material. Unique to PureVision, this material offers outstanding comfort and health, and you will be able to experience life with visual clarity and a level of comfort that your lifestyle may demand. These lenses allow natural levels of oxygen to reach your eyes, and you can be assured your eyes will feel comfortable all day long and well into the night. The PureVision Family includes PureVision, PureVision 2, PureVision Toric, and PureVision Multifocal.
If you’re tired of grainy vision or lenses that lose moisture throughout the day, then the Sofltens Dailies might be for you. Packed with innovative technology like HD optics and Comfort Moist, Softlens gives the user a maintenance-free lens that can be thrown away and forgotten about.
At Insights Optical, our contact lens exams and fittings are designed to help our patients find the ideal lenses for their unique vision needs. Our team knows the importance of a safe and comfortable contact lens fit and looks forward to helping our patients.
Contact us to book your contact lens exam and fitting appointment today.
Optomap Retinal Imaging is an essential part of every eye exam we complete at Insights Optical. By taking a high-definition photo of the back of your eye, called the retina, we can gain valuable information about your health.
In less than 1 second, Optomap allows us to take a 200o photo that gives an ultrawide 82% view of your retina all at once. Retinal imaging not only helps us find signs of eye diseases, but can tell us if you’re at risk of other health issues like stroke, heart disease, and diabetes.
Neurolens is an innovative new technology we use to diagnose and treat eye misalignment accurately. Eye misalignment can cause headaches, eye strain, and blurred vision.
Neurolens vision correction begins with an accurate and efficient measurement of your unique eye alignment. We can then use those measurements to create your personalized Neurolenses to help you overcome your eye misalignment symptoms.
With Neurolens, we can correct eye misalignment and reduce the severity of your symptoms. Using a contoured prism design, Neurolens seamlessly adjusts the image your eyes see, making vision comfortable. Get in touch with us to learn if Neurolens is right for you.
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