Contact Lenses:
Whether you’ve never worn lenses before, or perhaps tried a few years ago, wouldn’t you like the chance to experience the freedom and comfort that modern contact lenses offer? Why not ask to try a pair of the very latest lenses? We have many hundreds of happy lens wearers aged from under 8 to over 80, some of whom wear lenses full time and some just socially or for sports etc.

We offer a free initial trial to anyone wishing to try contact lenses, so what have you got to lose, apart from maybe your glasses?

Soft Lenses:
Soft Contact Lenses are very easy to adapt to and extremely comfortable to wear. Disposable lenses deal effectively with the problems of material wear and lens deposits, simply by disposing of the lenses on a planned regular basis. We supply daily, two weekly, monthly and three monthly options as well as durable lenses. Daily Disposable lenses are available
to suit around 75% of single vision prescriptions. If you are out of the range currently available, there may well be a monthly, two weekly or weekly lens to suit you. The cost of these lenses continues to fall as they gain popularity, and prices are now well under £1.00 per day for full time users.

Continuous Wear Lenses:
These are now available. Ciba & Bausch & Lomb now produce Silicone-Hydrogel lenses which offer unparalleled levels of safety for continuous wear of up to 30 days and nights. For more information on these lenses please call the practice or send us an email.

Coloured Soft Lenses
These are available in a disposable format or as a more durable lens. Ciba manufacture a huge range of coloured lenses, but we also deal with other suppliers.

Soft Lenses For Astigmatism
If you have astigmatism there are a number of monthly soft toric lenses available, as well as daily & two weekly. There are several manufacturers that can provide us with custom soft toric lenses on a three or six monthly planned replacement scheme.

Rigid Gas Permeable (RGP) Lenses
RGP lenses look very much like the original hard corneal lenses first fitted around fifty years ago,
but that is where the similarities end. RGP materials allow oxygen to pass through the material to
the cornea, and although soft lenses do this too, the best RGP lenses allow a greater flow of
oxygen to the cornea than many soft lenses. RGP lenses may give a better standard of vision
than soft lenses if there is more than 0.50D of astigmatism in the prescription, and offer a less
expensive alternative to soft torics, or may even attain a better standard of vision than soft torics.
Historically, there is a lower incidence of infection problems with RGP wearers compared to soft lens
wearers, although these comparisons were made before the days of daily disposable soft lenses
which have a fairly unblemished track record. RGP lenses are available in bifocal and multifocal
forms, and as toric lenses if there are very large amounts of astigmatism. If you would like more
information about contact lenses of any type, please talk to us. As independent opticians we have
the freedom to offer the products which we feel will most benefit the individual patients we see.
We do not use “own-brand” products to increase profitability and restrict choice.

Orthokeratology
For more information on this treatment for short-sightedness, please call us or send an email.