Contact Lens Exams, Fittings & Brands

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Most people are familiar with wearing contact lenses for vision correction, but that’s not all they can do. Contact lenses can be worn for purely cosmetic or novelty purposes, like changing eye colour. Additionally, some are used for therapeutic purposes, including myopia control and vision therapy, migraine and dry eye treatment.

Contact lenses are medical devices regulated by Health Canada and require a prescription. Patients with up-to-date prescriptions can order contacts online, but contact lens exams are necessary for new prescriptions or updates.

Eye exams for contact lenses help ensure that your lenses are working as they should, provide sharp vision, and don’t interfere with eye health and comfort.

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Types of Contact Lenses

Contact lenses have come a long way since their early days when they were made of blown glass. Today, there are 2 main types, soft and RGP.

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Soft Contact Lenses

Soft contact lenses are made of malleable plastic polymers, which form a smooth fit over the cornea. The secure fit helps prevent them from falling out, often beneficial for athletes or active wearers. Soft contacts are generally easier to adapt to, particularly for first-time wearers, and are more suitable for irregular wear.

Soft contacts are disposable but wear time varies. Lenses may be replaced after 1 day, 1 week, or 1 month.

RGP Lenses

Rigid gas permeable (RGP) lenses are durable plastics that allow oxygen to pass through. Although sometimes referred to as hard contacts, RGP lenses replaced old-fashioned hard contacts.

The sturdier lens material allows for sharper vision and is often used for higher prescriptions. RGP lenses can require a longer adaption period (compared to soft contacts). But RGP lenses can be easier to care for and better for dry eye.

Hybrid Lenses- Duette

Hybrid lenses combine soft and RGP contact lens characteristics. The lens has a durable RGP centre with a soft outer layer (or skirt). The skirt helps keep the lens in place and improve comfort, while the harder inside provides sharp vision.

Hybrid contacts can also benefit wearers who find RGP contacts challenging to adjust to or have certain eye conditions creating corneal distortion, including high astigmatism and keratoconus.

Specialty Contacts Lenses

Although soft or RGP (hard) are the basic types of contact lenses, there are various specialty contacts. These contact lenses can be soft, RGP, or a combination.

Prosthetic Lenses

Prosthetic contact lenses do not correct vision. Instead, they improve the appearance of an eye by covering flaws caused by injury or eye disease. Alternatively, they can also be used to treat people with severe light sensitivity, as it adds a layer to help filter light.

Scleral Lenses

Scleral lenses are made of a similar material to RGP lenses but feature a larger diameter and an alternate shape. Instead of resting on the cornea like other lens types, scleral lenses vault over the cornea and rest on the sclera (white of the eye).

The vault creates a fluid reservoir between the cornea and the lens, benefiting wearers at risk for dry eye. The sclera is also less sensitive than the cornea, so the lens rests more comfortably. Scleral lenses can also better fit patients with high astigmatism or corneal irregularities.

Multifocals

Multifocals are lenses featuring more than one prescription for correcting vision at different distances. Bifocals and trifocals are types of multifocals. Some multifocals have a line splitting the prescription, such as bifocals with an upper half for myopia and lower half for presbyopia. Alternatively, progressive lenses create a fluid, no-line transition in the lens.

Multifocal contacts are available as soft or RGP lenses.

Transitions

Transitions adapt to light conditions. Although they do not replace sunglasses, they can provide UV protection for the eye area covered by the lens. The lens is clear in areas with low light and darkens when light increases, but with minimal changes to eye appearance. Transitions improve comfort by filtering light indoors and outdoors.

Ortho-K

Orthokeratology, or ortho-k, is a surgery-free way to correct vision, especially nearsightedness. Ortho-k lenses are worn overnight and removed in the morning so you can see clearly without contacts or glasses during the day.

Rather than including a prescription lens, ortho-k lenses are specially designed to modify the shape of the front of your eye to focus light directly on the retina. Ortho-k is also one of our myopia control treatments for children.

Our Brands

Alcon

Alcon has one mission: to provide innovative products that enhance quality of life by helping people see better. Alcon is and uniquely poised to serve every contact lens wearer by addressing the full life cycle of their needs. Designed in the USA.

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.

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.

Johnson & Johnson

As a primary resource to optometrists and eye care professionals, Johnson & Johnson aims to make the world a better place by providing health solutions for everyone. Explore well-known, trusted products with a brand responsible for improving daily lives.

Precision

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.

SynergEyes

SynergEyes hybrid contact lenses transform the vision for patients with astigmatism, presbyopia, and irregular cornea conditions. Since the first generation of hybrid lenses came to market in 2005, the company has continued to develop and deliver advancements in hybrid contact lens technologies. Generation 2 lenses combine new high-Dk materials with more comfortable, vision-optimized designs. In 2015, several new products expanded the vision possibilities for patients that will benefit from this leading technology.

We’re Here for Your Contact Lens Care

Wearing contact lenses can be convenient and easy. Still, contacts also create a higher risk for some eye conditions, such as corneal ulcers and keratitis. A yearly comprehensive eye exam can help keep your vision and eye health at their best.

Our eye care team is passionate about eye care knowledge, and that includes keeping up with the advances in contact lenses. We pride ourselves on offering patients reliable technology to fit their lifestyle. We want you to achieve the best comfort and quality of vision possible with contact lenses.

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