Contact Lenses

Major advances in contact lens design mean that almost everyone can wear contact lenses successfully nowadays and our practice specialises in fitting people who have been told they "can't wear contact lenses".

Contact lenses are one of the miracles of modern technology. New lens designs and materials, as well as advanced care products, now make contact lenses easier and more comfortable to wear than ever before.

They offer freedom from wearing glasses in daily life, when playing sport, or for important social occasions, and can bring particular benefits for individuals with stronger vision correction requirements.

At cameronoptometry we don't just sell contact lenses: we provide a comprehensive contact lens service supplying monthly disposable lenses, weekly, daily, silicon hydrogels, low and high water content, large and small diameter, custom made or stock, coloured, tinted or hand painted, rigid gas permeable, toric, specialist lenses for medical conditions and many others.

People with astigmatism, a condition in which the eye is irregularly shaped causing distorted vision, were restricted to wearing glasses, but today's 'toric' contact lenses can provide clear vision.

Presbyopia, the natural ageing of the eye's lens which progressively affects everyone over the age of about 40, makes it difficult to shift focus between near and distant objects. This condition can also be corrected with bifocal contact lenses which provide clear distance and near vision.

At first hearing, the alternative to bifocals, monovision, sounds like a strange option. It involves committing one eye to distance vision and the other to reading. In about 75% of cases this gives an excellent visual result at all distances and complete freedom from glasses.