What Contacts Offer

Contacts can make you look and feel great. They can take away the glasses stereotype and allow you to work and play with ease, but if you've been told that you're hard to fit, then you probably think you're the only one in the world who can't wear them. Rest assured, you're not alone. Millions of people are hard to fit, and doctors who don't prescribe a lot of contacts have a difficult time finding the right prescription and contact.

Dr. Stamper and his associates understand how difficult contact lens wearing can be, and have helped thousands of hard to fit patients find the perfect prescription and lens to meet their needs.

Why We're Different

A thorough eye examination is performed to determine your suitability for contact lenses. All contact lens fittings include a comprehensive examination, corneal evaluation, the lenses, care kit, instructions for wearing schedule and cleaning, and follow up visits for three months.

We often use a corneal topographer to evaluate the corneal shape looking for any irregularities or complications to fitting contact lens.

Reasons to Consider Contact Lenses

Contact lenses provide improved peripheral vision, decrease distortions caused by glasses. Contact lenses allow better performance in sports and an active lifestyle.

Cosmetic improvement- they make you look better.
Glasses fog up in many winter activities, such as snow skiing, snowboarding, or snowmobiling.

The various contact lens options have advantages and disadvantages that are all evaluated during the contact lens evaluations to find the best fit for your needs.

Type of Contact Lens

The type of contact lens that is best for you is determined by several factors such as your vision problem, your eye health, and your lifestyle.

Some of the lens types offer include:

Astigmatic and toric lenses. Toric lenses, for the correction of astigmatism, come in many forms; disposable, daily wear or extended wear.

Bifocal lenses. Disposable or gas permeable which allows you to see far and near for those who are over 40.

Gas permeable lenses are rigid, but made of materials that allow the eye to breathe. They are one way of correcting for significant amounts of astigmatism. We also have had great success fitting bifocal gas permeable lenses for over 20 years.

Soft lenses offer comfort and good vision for most people. If you have a lot of astigmatism, you'll need either special soft lenses called toric lenses or gas permeable lenses.

Disposable lenses are the newest type of contact lens. Many eye health problems that develop while wearing contacts are due to a buildup of deposits from your tears. With disposable contacts you don't keep the lenses long enough for that buildup to occur. Disposable lenses are also much more convenient because you always have a spare pair. It's not a problem if you lose or tear a lens.

Disposable Contact Lens

There are several different modes of disposable contact lens wear:

Daily wear with the lenses replaced after two weeks. The lenses are removed and cleaned each night.

Extended wear with the lenses replaced after one week. This is the simplest mode but does have a greater chance of health problems. One day daily wear with the lenses replaced every day. There is no cleaning required. This is the ultimate in simplicity.

We offer lenses which have been approved by FDA to be worn for 30 days.

Social occasional wear for those times you just don't want to wear your glasses. Sport occasional wear for those activities in which glasses just don't work well like basketball, golfing, and swimming. Wild eyes for Halloween?

Monovision occasional wear is a technique used to give people over 40 both near and far vision without wearing bifocals or reading glasses. Disposable contacts are available in clear or in colors that can change your eye color to blue, green, hazel or violet.