Lenses
Contact Lenses
Contact lenses have been improving steadily in comfort and optics due to the competition of commitment between manufacturers. These advances are due to innovation in lens materials with better comfort through in-built lubrication, higher oxygen transmission and moisture content. Our visual demands increase with the years passing us by and also with the need to have a youthful outlook – these have also innovated newer optical designs in contact lenses and refractive surgery.
Contact lenses like refractive surgery free you from glasses. The feeling of being unencumbered is to be experienced by those who have worn glasses most of their lives. They work best with single vision. Multifocal designs are available and are still evolving. Advanced presbyopia still proves challenging.
Our Optometrist fits all available brands and modalities ranging from gas permeables, daily, weekly or monthly disposables to annual custom-made contact lenses including orthokeratology, keratoconus, scleral lenses. As an independent we strive to fit lenses that are best for our patients’ eyes. Sometimes, we prescribe one brand for one eye and another for the other eye.
Choosing Spectacle Lenses
Lens materials have matured but the biggest change is the new optical designs made possible with digital manufacture. The result is better optics and customisable lenses. Photochromic lenses (that darken in sunlight) are tinting and reverting to clear both clearer and faster are backed with satisfaction guarantees by their manufacturers. Anti-reflective and protective lens coatings continually innovate to improve their performance and durability.
Spectacle Lenses
We work with a wide range of lenses ranging from conventional to digitally bespoke dual surfaced lenses with antireflective, polarised, tinted, flash mirrored or photochromic finishes. When working with complex prescriptions (high spherical powers and high astigmatism, prism and high curvature), we aim to match the frame style, the frame size, the lens thickness and weight to best ensure an expected outcome for each individual’s need with the help of computer modelling. And yes, this is the arena best left to the experts however there are lenses and there are lenses! And it is for these reasons that lenses can vary in quality – no pair of eyes are ever the same as another pair of eyes.
