Would you like to have the convenience of seeing without spectacles on your nose? Would you like to play sport without your glasses getting in the way? Contact lenses may be the answer if the risks of refractive surgery don't appeal, with the advantage that the correction is reversible if it doesn't work out!

There are many designs and materials used in the manufacture of contact lenses beyond the 'standard disposable lenses' which one sees widely advertised. Even though you may have been told that 'your eyes are not suitable for contact lenses', there are options which can be fitted to almost any eye.

If you have a normal visual error such as longsightedness, shortsightedness or astigmatism, there are:

• daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly disposables
• six monthly frequent replacement lenses
• conventional soft lenses

For those who have more complex needs, there are:

• rigid gas-permeable 'hard' lenses
• hydrophilic surface rigid gas-permeable (RGP) lenses
• RGP lenses with a soft carrier buffer lens
• special design lenses for keratoconus (conical cornea) and scarred eyes.

It is well known that some forms of progressing myopia in children can be arrested by the use of RGP contact lenses.

Even when you need distance glasses and reading glasses, there are bifocal contact lenses available or you have the option of monovision where one eye is corrected for distance and the other for reading.

We have experience in fitting all of these lenses.

Treatment for Myopia - see Orthokeratology