Soft Contact Lenses
Approximately 80 percent of all contact lens wearers use soft contact lenses. These small, plastic devices cover your entire cornea when worn. The plastic polymer of the lens absorbs water, which is responsible for carrying oxygen from the tear layer above the lens to the corneal surface below. This also is what helps to make it feel so comfortable on your eye.
All soft contact lenses are not made the same, therefore your lenses must be fit and prescribed by a licensed eye doctor. Your Loyola eye doctor will make sure that the lenses are appropriate for your eyes so that you can limit or avoid complications from wearing contact lenses and to ensure that you will have clear vision and years of safe, comfortable wear.
Our Contact Lens Service works with and offers a variety of soft contact lens products depending on the needs of the patient. We are always bringing new technology into our practice as it becomes available. These are some of the things you might be looking for:
- Disposable lenses - for replacement daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly
- Continuous (extended) wear - now approved for weekly or monthly wear with the correct fit
- Toric lenses for the correction of astigmatism – no prescription is too high
- Lenses for very high nearsightedness or farsightedness
- Tinted lenses to change your eye color
- Soft bifocal contact lenses to correct the inability to focus sharply on nearby objects (presbyopia) – exciting new technology has made these more successful than ever
- Monovision for the correction of presbyopia
- Lens designs to deal with dry eye problems
- Absence of the natural lens of the eye (aphakia)