Contact Lenses Perth
Assessments & Custom Fittings
Soft, Rigid & Specialty Lenses
Contact Lenses Perth
Visiting Ezekiel Eyes for contact lens fittings ensures you receive personalized and professional care. Our experienced optometrists use advanced technology to precisely measure your eyes, guaranteeing a perfect fit for maximum comfort and optimal vision.
Soft Contact Lenses
Rigid (RGP) Contact Lenses
Scleral Contact Lenses
Ortho-K Contact Lenses
Monovision Contact Lenses
Contact Lenses for Astigmatism
Infant Contact Lenses
X-Chrome Contact Lenses
Soft Contact Lenses
Soft contact lenses, made of plastic polymer and non-silicone hydrogel materials, offer numerous benefits. These lenses allow oxygen to reach the eye, promoting comfort and eye health. Their flexible design adapts to the shape of your eye, providing a natural feel and reducing the risk of irritation. Ideal for active lifestyles, soft lenses stay in place during physical activities and offer a more comfortable fit than rigid lenses. Additionally, they are available in various types, including daily, bi-weekly, and monthly disposables, catering to different preferences and needs.
Rigid (RGP) Contact Lenses
Rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lenses offer superior oxygen permeability compared to soft lenses, promoting better eye health. They provide sharper, clearer vision, particularly for those with astigmatism or keratoconus. RGP lenses maintain their shape, ensuring consistent vision correction. Their durability means they only need replacement every two years, making them cost-effective. Additionally, they are less prone to dehydration, ensuring long-lasting comfort throughout the day. Ideal for those seeking precise vision correction and long-term use, RGP lenses are a reliable choice for maintaining eye health and visual clarity.
Scleral Contact Lenses
Scleral contact lenses offer numerous benefits, especially for individuals with irregular corneas, severe dry eyes, or keratoconus. These lenses vault over the entire corneal surface and rest on the sclera, providing a smooth optical surface and exceptional vision correction. They create a fluid reservoir between the lens and the cornea, ensuring continuous hydration and comfort. Scleral lenses also offer enhanced stability, reducing the risk of dislodgement during activities. Additionally, they provide a larger diameter, offering better protection and comfort for sensitive eyes. Ideal for those with complex vision needs, scleral lenses ensure optimal eye health and visual clarity.
Ortho-K Contact Lenses
Ortho-K contact lenses (orthokeratology) provide a unique vision correction solution by reshaping the cornea overnight. This temporary corneal reshaping offers clear vision throughout the day without the need for glasses or daytime contacts. Ideal for individuals with myopia, Ortho-K lenses can slow the progression of nearsightedness in children. These lenses are also beneficial for active individuals, eliminating the inconvenience of traditional lenses during sports or water activities. By offering a non-surgical alternative to LASIK, Ortho-K lenses provide a reversible and adjustable option for vision correction, promoting eye health and long-term visual acuity.
Monovision Contact Lenses
Monovision contact lenses offer an effective solution for presbyopia, a common issue starting around ages 40-45, where close vision requires reading glasses or bifocals. By correcting one eye for distance and the other for near vision, monovision lenses eliminate the need for multiple pairs of glasses. This approach provides seamless visual transitions, enhancing daily activities such as reading, driving, and using digital devices. Monovision lenses are customizable, catering to individual visual needs and preferences. They offer convenience and improved quality of life by addressing both near and far vision requirements in a single, easy-to-use solution.
Contact Lenses for Astigmatism
Contact lenses for astigmatism, specifically toric lenses, offer precise vision correction by catering to the unique curvature of the cornea. These lenses provide stable, clear vision, eliminating the blurriness associated with astigmatism. Unlike glasses, contact lenses move with your eyes, offering a wider field of vision and better peripheral awareness. Available in both soft and rigid gas permeable materials, they ensure comfort and breathability. Additionally, contact lenses for astigmatism are suitable for active lifestyles, staying in place during physical activities. They provide a versatile and effective solution, enhancing visual acuity and overall quality of life.
Infant Contact Lenses
Contact lenses offer a vital solution for infants with paediatric aphakia, a condition where the crystalline lens is absent due to congenital or traumatic cataracts. These lenses provide essential vision correction, enabling proper visual development during crucial early years. They offer a more stable and effective alternative to glasses, which can be impractical for infants. Contact lenses help maintain clear vision, promoting normal eye growth and preventing amblyopia (lazy eye). Customizable for individual needs, they ensure optimal comfort and fit. By addressing vision issues early, contact lenses support overall cognitive and motor development, improving the child’s quality of life.
X-Chrome Contact Lenses
X-Chrome contact lenses offer a unique solution for red-green color vision deficiencies. Worn in one eye, the red lens enhances contrast and color differentiation by allowing the brain to compare visual input from both eyes. This comparison helps individuals distinguish between red and green hues more effectively. X-Chrome lenses can improve daily activities, such as reading colored charts, driving, and enjoying vibrant visuals in nature and media. By providing a simple, non-surgical option to enhance color perception, X-Chrome lenses significantly improve the quality of life for those with color vision deficiencies.
Watch the following message from the Owner and Principal Optometrist of Ezekiel Eyes to learn more about our Perth optometry practice, here in Nedlands, W.A.
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Transcript of Damon's Interview
– Welcome everyone, I’m here with Damon Ezekiel, owner and principal optometrist of Ezekiel Eyes. Damon, thanks for joining us today.
– Thanks Leigh, thanks for the time.
– Great, could you tell me a bit about contact lenses? What are some of the benefits of wearing contact lenses?
– So, Leigh, there’s a lot of different types of contact lenses. We get patients in who say “I just can’t, I’ve been told I can’t wear contact lenses” and one of the most important things that we do in our practise is obviously checking your prescription, but one of the most important things is the curve on the front of the eye. So, until we know what the curve is, it’s very hard to diagnose which way we can go.
Contact Lens Types
There’s lots of different types of contact lenses. There are soft lenses and within the soft lens world there’s disposable lenses and conventional lenses.
Soft Contact Lenses
So, we still fit conventional lenses depending on what your prescription is, or what the shape of your eye is. Like I said, unless we know what the shape of your eye is, it’s very hard to know which direction we’re going.
Rigid Contact Lenses (Hard Contact Lenses)
Then there’s rigid lenses and within rigid lenses there’s lots of different options. And within both types of lenses, soft lenses and rigid lenses, there’s different breathing lenses and lenses have different modules depending on how soft or floppy, or stiff they are.
Your Lifestyle
So, the same again, it depends on you, allergies, the shape of your eye, what you need, what you don’t need, whether you’re wearing lenses during the day or whether we need to discuss wearing lenses overnight.
Whether you need lenses for distance, computer and reading, is it for sport, is it for social, I mean, there’s a gamut of options.
It really depends on what you need, how often you want to wear them, the combination of your prescription, allergies, but one of the most important things is the relationship between your prescription and the curve on the front of your eye. And that’s what we’re going to marry together for you and work out what works for you.
Contact Lens Solutions
The next subset is stack of different solutions out there. Depending on what your body type is like allergy-wise, there’s particular solutions you need to stay away from and there’s particular solutions that will work well for you. So, different preservatives work well for some patients and not for others. There’s a real combination and permutations of all these different things that we need to marry together to work out what individually is going to work for you.
One size and one type of solution does not work for everybody and that’s what we do at Ezekiel Eyes, we tailor make for you, the patient, and individualise, and we want to spend that time to work out what do you need? What do you desire, what do we need to get you across the line, to get you to be happy with the quality of your vision and the quality of the life that you desire.
Contact Lenses for Astigmatism
(Leigh)- And if I’ve got astigmatism, you can get contact lenses for that too?
– Absolutely, so depending on where the astigmatism is in your eye or on the front of your eye, or within your eye, will depend on what type of lens is going to work for you. You know, and astigmatism could actually be more of a distortion than an astigmatism and that just depends on where it is as to what we can do to help you. But certainly, astigmatisms can be corrected with contact lenses, absolutely.
Disposable Contact Lenses
(Leigh)- Great, okay. And these disposable lenses, what varieties do they come in?
(Damon)- Oh, my goodness, so disposable lenses, there’s dailies, there’s fortnightlies, and there’s monthlies, so you know, depending on what you require, depending on which way to go.
Certainly, there’s a strong desire these days for dailies because dailies are so much easier. You wear them once, you through them out. You don’t have to use solution so there’s no potential preservatives involved.
So, if we can minimise compliance for patients and make it easier for the patient, then a daily would be the way to go. But, there’s a certain issue with all disposables that one size fits everybody and that, you know, just does not work.
That’s what the beauty of what we do in our practise at Ezekiel Eyes is that we’ll customise and workout what is going to work for you.
How do Soft Contact Lenses Work?
– Yeah, for sure. That’s good. So, tell me about how do contact lenses work?
– So, contact lens, depending on the type of contact lens you desire, so a soft lens is going to wrap on the curve of your eye, like the cornea, so the back of the lens needs to fit on the back of your eye and the front of the contact lens has got the prescription. So soft lenses are very simple.
How do Rigid Contact Lenses Work?
The rigid lenses are a lot more complicated and that really depends on the curve on the front of your eye.
So, if the front of your eye’s like a soccer ball, that’s pretty simple to deal with. If it’s like the side of a rugby ball, so it’s long and short, that’s pretty easy to deal with.
We see a lot of patients at Ezekiel Eyes with very distorted eyes (e.g. Keratoconus). So, the front of their eye is not regular, it’s more like the end of a rugby ball so it’s like a cone distortion.
So, in that case, what we’re going to do is fit you with a rigid lens that sits off the cone and the tear layer between the back of the lens and the front of the eye, is going to overcome all that distortion and then we’ve got a new front to your eye which is like a soccer ball.
We can put a prescription on there and then make the vision absolutely amazing!
Unfortunately, with this type of person, they outgrow glasses and soft contact lenses. They’re just not going to do anything because of that irregularity.
So, by fitting a rigid lens, which is a specialised lens, we get particular curves, we can make, we can transform someone’s world.
Better vision than you get with glasses!
(Leigh)- Yeah, for sure. And that quality that they get, their vision is so much better than contacts or glasses.
– Oh yeah, so with glasses and soft contact lenses they will be, they might only get a third of the way down our optical chart.
Whereas with this type of rigid lenses, there’s lots of different types of rigid lenses, we can get them, you know, maybe 80 to 90% or even 100% down to what we call 6-6/20-20.
So, it’s an amazing transformation.
– [Leigh] Fantastic!
– (Damon) And I guess, you know, we get patients in who when they come in and pick up their rigid lenses of whatever type that is, when they leave, so they’ve just picked them up, when they leave and they look outside and they’re like,
“I can see individual leaves on the tree!”- They are completely blown away!
It’s amazing for me because I stand back and take my vision for granted which is pretty reasonable.
For someone who thinks their vision is normal to then transform them to what I and you see, it’s like oh my goodness, really? That’s what I’ve been missing out on for so long!
So that’s a bit of a buzz. It’s like an adrenaline hit to go wow, we can make a difference!
(Leigh)- That’s incredible to … The things that they thought they would never be able to improve that just by coming to see you that you’ve be able to help them out.
(Damon)- It is a bit of a spin out, when you think about the difference you can make to the quality of someone’s life. It’s amazing.
If you’re a First Time Contact Lens Wearer…
– [Leigh] Yeah, that’s fantastic. So, what are some of the things that you would like to know if someone’s interested in trying contact lenses for the first time?
– (Damon) So, Leigh, one of the most important things for me is when a patient comes in, if a patient walks into my room and says, I want contact lenses, my job is easy because their mindset is that’s what I want.
The worst that I can do if a patient comes in and look, I might try them and they’re really not sure.
For me to talk someone into contact lenses is not going to work so patients who walk in and strangle me and say, Damon, give me contact lenses. It’s easy because their mindset’s there. I only have to do my art and the science to get them across the line.
So if you’ve got the right mindset, you know what you want, or you’ve got some options we’ll talk about the options, I’ll lay them on the table all the different things that we could do for you whether it’s a soft lens and/or a rigid lens or the different types of rigid lenses.
Then my job is really easy because the patients come in and says, Damon, help me. I know I need contact lenses, let’s do it, what do you recommend?
(Leigh)- Yeah, that’s really good. Then you know that they’re motivated to succeed.