Eye Exam and Contact Lens Evaluations – Serving the Bay Area & San Jose, CA

We fit many types of contact lenses, whether cosmetic, functional, or therapeutic. We fit many patients with a disposable type of contact lens, meaning that you change your contact lenses more than once yearly. The disposable contacts are healthier, feel cleaner, give your eyes more oxygen and allow you to always have a back-up pair of contact lenses. The patient’s lifestyle helps the doctors determine which replacement schedule will work the best. We have some patients who have a combination of 1-day disposable contacts and 2-week disposable contact lenses. 

Our eye doctors are fitting many patients with specialty contacts such as scleral lenses and a hybrid contact lens, SynergEyes. These specialty lenses can be used on patients with keratoconus or irregular corneas. Scleral lenses are large hard contact lenses that are fitted on patients generally with moderate to advanced keratoconus or very distorted corneas. Often this is the only treatment available to help patients see.

The hybrid contact lens is another treatment option and this lens is part soft and part gas permeable.  We fit more SynergEyes lenses than the rigid gas permeable lenses (RGP), because the SynergEyes contacts provide patients with HD or “high definition” vision with the comfort of a soft lens.

These lenses, like RGP contacts, work great on those patients whose prescriptions constantly change. These lenses help stabilize the vision and are often used in young children as a form of prevention of myopia progression. SynergEyes contacts will definitely help improve vision in those patients with distorted corneas, keratoconus, and post-refractive surgery patients. We welcome the challenge of fitting the “hard to fit” eyeballs.