Contact Lens Services

Contact Lens Fitting
This practice is well versed and well equipped for contact lens fitting. All five Optometrists have extensive experience in contact lenses and patient care. All are experienced in a wide range of contact lens fitting: from the complex, for example, high levels of astigmatism, keratoconus, or a large focussing error, to the more basic, for example, intermittent soft contact lens daily wear. All also fit bifocal contact lenses, which can be either soft lenses or rigid lenses. More recently all Optometrists now provide orthokeratology vision correction therapy.

David Austen, who worked at the Leicester Royal Infirmary contact lens clinic for over 15 years, also fits scleral contact lenses, for persons with disfigured eyes.

Contact Lens Supply
We supply all types of lenses. Rigid lenses can be supplied in either PMMA material (the older type of rigid contact lenses), or gas permeable material (the newer type of rigid contact lenses). These lenses can also be supplied as specially designed rigid lenses (for example, anterior surface toric, bitoric, lenticulated, fenestrated, or bifocal lenses).

We also supply many types of Soft lenses: conventional soft lenses, toric soft lenses, disposable soft lenses (daily, weekly, two-weekly, monthly, 3 monthly, toric, or bifocal), and extended wear soft lenses (lenses designed for 24 hour wear). We use contact lenses from numerous manufacturers, because patient characteristics and requirements differ. Thus we select the lens type based on which lens provides optimal comfort and quality of vision for each patient. Sometimes this means trying 2 or 3 different lens types, if the first lens type does not give satisfactory results.

Contact Lens Aftercare
For those patients who already wear contact lenses, we are happy to provide regular aftercare examinations, to ensure that their ocular health is not compromised by wearing contact lenses.