Contact Lens Exam

Current contact lens wearers are advised to come to your ophthalmic appointment wearing your contact lenses. We also ask that you bring any boxes, vials, or foil packages that the lenses came in.

At your comprehensive eye examination, the contact lenses will be evaluated for the amount of hours you are currently wearing your contact lenses, how you clean them, and the look of your contact lenses under a microscope.  The microscope, called a slit lamp, will allow a magnified view of how the contact lenses look on your eyes.  We are able to evaluate the lens (considered a medical device) for proper movement on the eye and for debris.  This will inform the physician if the contact is ‘healthy’ for your eye.  You will be over refracted with the contact lenses in your eyes.  This is a machine that determines whether you need the prescription changed in the contact lens.  If the evaluation determines you need to change the material of your contact lens due to your eye health status, or your prescription needs to be updated you will be sent to our licensed optician in our optical department.  Your exam with the physician DOES NOT give you an updated contact lens prescription.

If you are new to the contact lens experience and are interested in contact lenses, the physician will determined if you are a candidate for contact lenses.  At your comprehensive medical examination, you will be provided with an eyeglass prescription and referred to the Optical Department for an appointment with our licensed optician for a contact lens fitting. 

At the contact lens fitting different lens materials will be tested on your eye. You will have special measurements that will compute the eyes curvature for the appropriate contact lens size.  The eyeglass prescription will be used by our licensed optician as a baseline in checking your contact lens prescription.  Remember, your eyeglasses sit on the bridge of your nose away from the eye, where as contact lens sits on the surface of your eye. An eye glass prescription is not a contact lens prescription.  This is only obtained by our licensed opticians in the optical department.  They are nationally certified by the National Contact Lens Association and are the only professionals that can give you the contact lens prescription.

Contact Lens fittings are done by appointment and cannot be done while your eyes are dilated; which means you may have to return for a contact lens fitting. For more information, please click here to view the Optical Department page.