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Eye & Contact Lens Factsheets

DAILY DISPOSABLE / WEEKLY / MONTHLY REPLACEMENT / YEARLY LENSES

Often people come to us with set ideas about lens wear usually based upon hearsay, biased advertising or advice based upon friends experiences - this is dangerous since, as we have said every case IS different!

HOW DO YOU WANT TO WEAR LENSES --- ALL DAY EVERY DAY, TO SLEEP IN AS WELL OR JUST OCASIONALLY, SAY SOCIALLY OR FOR SPORTS?

We take into account your individual needs but try not to be mislead by the general descriptions of lens types and mode of wear. For example, some people think that if they only want to wear lenses occasionally daily throw away lenses will be best but this is often not so.

Daily disposable lenses might not suit your tear chemistry or correct your vision correctly and can in some instances prove more expensive than other alternatives.

CARE REGIMES -- THE CLEANING AND DISINFECTION OF LENSES.

Some patients believe that daily or regular disposal of lenses must be safer and more hygienic than wearing the same lenses for up to a year or more.

In reality this is certainly not the case. No matter what lenses you are fitted with, the lenses will leave their storage container properly disinfected.

If you wear daily throwaway lenses they will be sterile on removal from their pack. If you are using lenses which have been worn previously, whether for days or even months, they also will be completely disinfected, usually having been stored overnight in a very simple to use 'All in One' soaking, cleaning and disinfecting solution. Long gone is the tedium of lengthy nightly and special weekly cleaning procedures.

Between the container and the eye there is just as much risk of the lenses being contaminated regardless of whether they are 'brand new' or have been worn before!

Cleaning is a hassle! Even the laziest wearer who is always in a rush will admit that caring for lenses today is no longer the tedious drag it used to be! Especially so if you wear lenses constantly for 30 days without removal!

SO WHAT'S BEST?

SIMPLY, with our experience and vast array of lens choices, that's where specialisation comes into it's own. Even so sometimes our first choice doesn't produce the very best results but we've always got lots of other choices to fall back on -

THAT'S WHAT'S CALLED SPECIALISATION!