A contact lens examination assesses your suitability as well as the type, parameters and power of contact lens you need. It requires additional tests such as corneal curvature, tear film assessment and is done after, or in some cases during, a general visual and eye health examination.  You may be asked questions about lifestyle and any preferences you've established. 

     After fitting and a trial period we will write a prescription for your contact lenses which contains brand, parameters, and power. More regular checkups are necessary because you have a foreign body in your eye all the time.

     There is much good news in contact lens fitting:

     1. If needed, we can provide you several different contact lenses to take home and try at no cost.

     2. If you decide contact lenses are not for you, that is fine. The cost of trying is virtually nothing. 

     3. We will provide you with a website and telephone number where you can purchase your lenses on line, you can use your own supplier, or you can have us order them for you. It's your choice.

     4. In addition to common contact lens fittings we can also "engineer" contact lenses through topographical mapping and computer assisted design   (CAD program). This allows us to, very accurately, design the back of the contact lens in accordance with the front of your eye. The results can be miraculous! 

    5. In todays contact lens world very few eyes are impossible. In the soft contact lens world disposables are the norm, and the days of wearing a pair of soft contact lenses for a year or even several months is a thing of the past.

     6. Specialty contact lenses such as astigmatism correcting, bifocal, or both are readily available.