Specialty Contact Lenses

For many people, standard soft contact lenses provide clear, comfortable vision. But if you have certain eye conditions, irregular corneas, or specific lifestyle needs, you may require a more advanced solution. At Friedman Optometry, we offer a variety of specialty lenses designed to meet your unique vision requirements and protect your long-term eye health while providing exceptional comfort.

What Are Specialty Contact Lenses?

Specialty contact lenses are custom-designed lenses created to address vision needs that standard lenses cannot fully correct. These lenses use advanced materials and designs to improve clarity, comfort, and overall eye health, making them ideal for patients with complex prescriptions or eye conditions.

For many people, standard soft contact lenses provide clear, comfortable vision. But if you have certain eye conditions, irregular corneas, or specific lifestyle needs, you may require a more advanced solution. At Friedman Optometry, we offer a variety of specialty lenses designed to meet your unique vision requirements and protect your long-term eye health while providing exceptional comfort.

What Are Specialty Contact Lenses?

Specialty contact lenses are custom-designed lenses created to address vision needs that standard lenses cannot fully correct. These lenses use advanced materials and designs to improve clarity, comfort, and overall eye health, making them ideal for patients with complex prescriptions or eye conditions.

Who Can Benefit from Specialty Contact Lenses?

Specialty contact lenses can help individuals with:

• Keratoconus or other irregular corneal shapes

• High astigmatism

• Severe dry eye syndrome

• Presbyopia (age-related difficulty focusing on near objects)

• Post-surgical vision changes (e.g., after LASIK or corneal transplants)

• Desire for improved visual quality, comfort, and long-term eye health
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What to Expect During the Fitting Process

Getting fitted for specialty contact lenses at Friedman Optometry is a personalized process designed to ensure you receive the best possible vision, comfort, and protection for your eye health. It begins with a comprehensive eye exam, during which we assess your overall eye health and determine your specific vision needs.

Next, we take specialized measurements using advanced diagnostic technology to create a detailed map of your cornea’s shape and surface. These precise measurements allow us to recommend lenses that will provide the clearest vision, healthiest fit, and maximum comfort.

You may then try trial lenses to evaluate how they feel and perform on your eyes. This step helps us confirm that the lens design we’ve chosen is right for you before moving forward. Once we’ve found the ideal match, your lenses are custom-made based on your exact measurements and vision requirements.

After you’ve received your lenses, we schedule follow-up visits to ensure they fit properly, support your eye health, and perform as expected. During these visits, we make any necessary adjustments so you can enjoy clear, comfortable, and healthy vision every day.

Types of Specialty Contact Lenses

We offer several specialty lens designs to meet a variety of needs:

• Scleral Contact Lenses: Large-diameter lenses that vault over the cornea and rest on the sclera (white of the eye). They protect the cornea while offering comfort for patients with dry eye or corneal irregularities and provide excellent vision and long-term eye health benefits.

• Rigid Gas-Permeable (RGP) Lenses: Smaller, firm lenses that maintain their shape on the eye to provide crisp vision, ideal for correcting astigmatism and irregular corneas while supporting corneal health.

• Hybrid Contact Lenses: Feature an RGP center for sharp vision with a soft lens skirt for enhanced comfort, combining the clarity of RGPs with the comfort and health support of soft lenses.

• Multifocal Contact Lenses: Designed for presbyopia, these lenses provide clear vision at multiple distances while helping maintain healthy eye function and reducing dependency on reading glasses.

• Orthokeratology (Ortho-K): Special lenses worn overnight to gently reshape the cornea, delivering clear daytime vision without the need for glasses or contacts, while promoting healthier long-term vision management.

Discover the Right Lenses for Your Eyes at Friedman Optometry

Our team takes pride in customizing lens solutions to fit your eyes, lifestyle, and vision goals. We use cutting-edge technology and our extensive expertise to ensure your specialty contact lenses deliver clarity, comfort, and lasting eye health.

Schedule your specialty contact lens consultation with Friedman Optometry today and experience the difference of truly customized vision care.