Majmudar, M. Douglas S. Kaplan, M. Maria E. Rosselson, M. Rachel H. Charles A. Faron, O. Marsha M. Malooley, O. Tiffany M. Andrzejewski, O. Neel S. Vaidya, M. Related Pages:. Contact Lenses Contact lenses are medical devices that interact directly with the ocular surface of the eye.
Font Re-Sizer. Contact Lenses. We design and develop new contact lenses on an ongoing basis. We will recommend the lenses that will work best for your eyes and your lifestyle. Our doctors fit contact lenses made by all the major manufacturers as wells as lenses from smaller custom labs, and even develop our own unique lenses for patients whom other doctors may consider difficult or impossible to fit. Due to their vast experience in contact lenses, they often find that patients who have not had past success with contact lenses are now able to enjoy contact lens wear.
As experts in the field of contact lenses, our doctors stay involved in research and development of the newest products associated with contact lenses, lecture at professional meetings and have published numerous articles in professional contact lens literature and textbooks.
You can be assured that our doctors will provide the highest quality of contact lens care for you whether your needs are as straightforward as soft disposable lenses or as complex as fitting contact lenses for keratoconus or following corneal trauma. Most people can wear contact lenses, including people with active lifestyles and people who have astigmatism or presbyopia need for bifocals.
Contact lenses are fast becoming the method of choice for most people for vision correction. Over the past number of decades developments in contact lens technologies have enabled patients to wear lenses more comfortably, for longer periods of wearing time, with greater eye health, and with excellence in vision incomparable to any other form of vision correction. We hope that this information helps you better understand some of the newest options available in contact lens care.
Our doctors are continually involved in clinical trials and studies for numerous contact lens and pharmaceutical laboratories. Our patients are often asked to serve as subjects for these studies, thus giving them the chance to access the newest developments in eye care.
Some of the most current studies we have been involved in include:. North Suburban Vision Consultants is involved in clinical trials on an ongoing basis. If you wish to be involved as a subject in upcoming studies please call our office and speak to our studies coordinator, Gabriela Flicker.
Or, email Gabriela This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Since disposable soft contact lenses have grown to take the 1 spot in contact lens wear in the United States. The advantages of disposable lenses include; ease of care, little to no cost for replacement of lost or damaged lenses, continual comfort through the wearing cycle, and increased ocular health. Disposable lenses are the healthiest and most cost efficient method for soft contact lens wears.
Complications associated with disposable lenses can in virtually all cases be traced to improper care and lens hygiene i. Not all disposable lenses are the same. Lenses differ in material, design, and replacement frequency. Some lenses offer higher oxygen transmission; others are more deposit resistant, while still others are better in dry eye conditions.
Disposable lenses are designed to be replaced at varying frequencies depending on the lens material used and the specifics of the individual patient i. Conventional soft lenses in comparison should generally be replaced at one year intervals. Single use daily disposable lenses are the best alternative for many patients. These lenses are worn during waking hours, removed at the end of the day and disposed. Your doctors at NSVC fit both disposable lens designs made by the largest manufacturers in the contact lens field, but also fit, due to their specialty nature of practice, disposable lenses manufactured by small specialty laboratories.
These lenses are often available only to a very small number of contact lens specialty practices or, on occasion, exclusive only to NSVC. They serve to provide unique performance characteristics that allow our doctors to solve special requirements that our patients may have. Today expanded designs of disposable lenses enable us to offer many options to those who need correction for nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism or need bifocal lens correction. As a result disposables are available to most all of us who want the freedom of contact lenses.
Some of the newest contact lens materials dramatically increase the level of oxygen transmission in order to allow for safe overnight wearing of contacts for up to one month. These lenses, called SiHy or silicone hydrogel lenses, have received FDA approval for up to 30 days of continuous wear. These lens are available as disposable lenses so that once they are removed they are discarded on a monthly basis. These lenses have already revolutionized contact lens wear and provide the ultimate in vision correction for many of our patients.
Although healthier for the eyes, the use of lenses for continuous wear still has a higher risk of complications than daily removal of lenses. Properly selected patients who wear the appropriate lenses for the prescribed time period by their doctor and who comply with prescribed ongoing aftercare monitoring visits will have a very high success rate for clear vision and healthy eyes with continued overnight use of contact lenses.
For years people were told they could not wear soft contact lenses because they had astigmatism. A number of eye conditions can make wearing contact lenses more challenging. These conditions include: Astigmatism Dry eyes Giant Bifocal and multifocal contact lenses are designed to restore vision at all distances for people over age Contact lenses, like eyeglasses or vision surgery, can correct nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism.
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