Contact Lenses
Modern contact lenses are so simple and convenient it’s easy to take them for granted. But lots of people’s lives are transformed every day by the freedom and flexibility they offer. You can wear contacts most of the time, with sunglasses, or simply when you prefer to leave your glasses at home.
Contact lenses are fantastic for today’s active lifestyles. Our contact lens patients include everyone from kids to people well past retirement age. A lot of wearers choose to use them almost all the time. Today’s contact lenses cater for a range of prescriptions, so you are not limited to only wearing prescription glasses – they can help you see just as well as while wearing your glasses. Contact lenses can also provide a full field of unobstructed vision, which is great for sports. Options Eyecare’s practitioners are experienced in the fitting of mini scleral contact lenses as well as the management of Keratoconic patients.
Disposable Contact Lenses
Soft contact lenses are made from gel-like, water-containing plastics called hydrogels, and cover the entire cornea. Silicone hydrogel contact lenses are an advanced type of soft lens that transmit more oxygen to the eye than regular hydrogel soft lenses. The beauty of these lenses is that they can be worn and then disposed of when the wearing time is complete. There are daily, fortnightly and monthly lenses available depending on which suits your needs best. Modern soft contact lens materials are so comfortable that you may often forget that you are even wearing contact lenses!
Hard Contact Lenses
Hard Contact Lenses are custom-designed rigid lenses that hold their shape when worn in the eye; this feature provides clearer vision for eye conditions such as keratoconus.
Rigid gas permeable lenses can be quite comfortable – they just have to be the right fit for the right eye. Our optometrists are experienced in the fitting of these lenses and have the latest technology to custom design each lens to every eye.
Ortho K Lenses
Used in the treatment and correction of short-sightedness, ortho k lenses are worn at night so that good vision is achieved through the daytime. The overnight contact lenses work by gently reshaping the cornea while the wearer sleeps to bring about eyesight correction without the need of glasses or contact lenses during the day.
How to insert, remove and clean your contact lenses
Different techniques to insert and remove contact lenses
3 Point Guide to Contact Lens Problem Management
Minor irritation or minor blurring of vision
Remove the lens, rub, rinse & return lens to eye. If no improvement, try spare lens.
If no improvement Book an appointment or Call us on (07) 5473 0008
Moderate discomfort or blurring of vision
Moderate discomfort, ocular discharge, redness or blurred vision.
Remove lenses and Book an appointment or Call us on (07) 5473 0008
Pain, severe discomfort, or aversion to bright lights.
Remove lenses.
Contact the Optometrist Immediately / Attend an after hours medical practitioner