Contact Lenses Available at North York Eye Clinic

 At North York Eye Clinic, our drive is to deliver optimum Contact Lens services in North York with the most advanced eye care technology.

We prescribe and fit contact lenses to assist patients in improving various vision problems, including astigmatism, farsightedness, and nearsightedness.

Our seasoned optometrists strive to offer patients the best quality contact lens service. People with corneal irregularities often strive to get contact lenses that give them a comfortable fit.

Our eye doctors use their broad knowledge to offer contact lenses that are customized and fit as per the eye shape. We also aim to provide the type of lens that can deliver tangible improvements in both comfort and vision for any eye conditions.

As a leading Contact Lens Service Provider in North York, we specialize in:

• Contact Lens Exams
• Contact Lens Fitting
• Contact Lens Prescriptions
• Customized Contact Lenses

We stock, carry and order contact lenses from:

• Acuvue
• Alcon
• CooperVision
• Bausch + Lomb

Contact lenses can provide some of the most natural, comfortable, and seamless vision correction available. The doctors at North York Eye Clinic are skilled contact lens fitters and can provide you with a huge variety of vision correction options. 

Advancements in contact lens technology allow us to solve issues with astigmatism, dry eyes and multi-distance vision. 

Learning to insert and remove contact lenses requires patience and motivation, and the doctors and staff at North York Eye Clinic will help you every step of the way! Tired of walking around with a pair of cheap over-the-counter readers hanging around your neck? Multifocal and monovision contacts can help you see clearly at distance and near without having to put on reading glasses!

Prior to prescribing contact lenses, our doctors will perform a comprehensive evaluation of your vision and ocular health. Based on these measurements, the doctors at North York Eye Clinic will determine and discuss your contact lens options.  Once a candidate lens has been selected from our trial set or ordered in for you, we then train you on how to insert, remove, and wear contacts. This part of the process is critical to your success, and we take great pride in our training and patience with this part of the process. From there, we test drive the lenses in the real world to optimize and fine tune your vision and contact lens experience. Once we have found the right lens for you, we finalize the contact lens prescription and you are on your way to experiencing clear natural vision.

Contact lenses are medical devices, so you need a contact lens prescription in order to buy them, and your eye doctor is required to make sure that your vision examination for your contact lens prescription involves finding the right fit for your lenses.

• Just as one shoe size doesn’t fit all, one contact lens size doesn’t fit all.
• If the curvature of a contact lens is too flat or too steep for your eye’s shape, you could experience discomfort or even eye damage.
• In addition to the fit of the contact lens Dr. Julie Yoo will check on the health of your cornea to ensure there are no dangerous contact lens complications and that you can continue to wear your contacts as directed.
• The contact lens exam fit and follow up examination includes:
  • Glasses prescription
  • Contact lens prescription
  • Contact lens insertion and removal training (if necessary)
  • Free trial pair of contacts

RGP Contact Lenses Fittings: RGP stands for ‘rigid permeable gas’ lenses. RGP lenses are renowned for providing outstanding visual acuity and their ease of handling make them a viable option for most patients. The cost of maintenance related to the contact lens solution, as well as their convenience, makes these lenses a viable option for many patients. Studies that have looked at the comfort of patients over a longer term have also shown that RGP lenses provide a high level of comfort.

Ortho K Fittings: Orthokeratology is often abbreviated to Ortho-K and it involves a process which uses specially designed contact lenses to temporarily contour the cornea with the goal of reducing nearsightedness. Research has shown that these lenses can slow the progression of nearsightedness, making it ideal for children and adults with progressive nearsightedness.

Scleral Lenses Fittings: Scleral lenses are much bigger than standard GP lenses. They vault over the cornea and rest on the conjunctiva (sclera), which is less sensitive. They fit under the eyelid resulting in comfort & stability.

They are manufactured in Gas Permeable (GP) material which provides a smooth optical surface
and excellent vision even in the face of corneal irregularities as well as superior oxygen permeability to the cornea. The lens also masks astigmatism making them an ideal solution for high astigmatism patients.

We offer a variety of contact lens services at North York Eye Clinic. Our doctors fit and design specialty contact lenses.

What are specialty contact lenses? For people who have very high or uncommon prescriptions, past eye surgeries, eye diseases and/or conditions that cannot use soft contact lenses can benefit from a specialty or custom contact lenses.

Fitting contact lenses to correct or treat any of the above conditions will generally take much more time than a regular contact lens fitting. These “hard-to-fit” cases usually require a series of office visits and multiple pairs of trial lenses before the final contact lens prescription can be determined. Also, the lenses required for these conditions are usually more costly than regular soft contact lenses. Therefore, fees for these fittings are higher than fees for regular contact lens fittings.

Please call our office for details.

Specialty Soft Contact Lenses:
Astigmatism/Toric Contact Lenses
Multifocal Contact Lenses

Multifocal Astigmatism/Toric Contact Lenses
Monovision Contact Lenses
Modified Monovision
Color Contacts
Chromagen Color Deficiency Contact Lenses

Specialty Gas Permeable Contact Lenses:
Rigid Gas Permeable Contact Lenses (Hard Contacts)
Keratoconus Lenses
Scleral Lenses
Orthokeratology Lenses (Gentle Molding Therapy)

Contact Lenses for Astigmatism
If you have astigmatism – a common condition where the eye isn’t perfectly round, but more football- or egg-shaped – then you’ll need a special design of contact lenses called “toric” lenses for clear vision. Toric contact lenses are available in both soft and rigid gas permeable (RGP or GP) lens materials. Most contact lens wearers who need toric contacts choose soft toric lenses.

Bifocal/Multifocal Contact Lenses

Bifocal and multifocal contact lenses are designed to give you good vision when you reach your 40s and become presbyopic. Presbyopia is the normal loss of focusing ability up close when you reach your 40s. Beginning at this age, you may need to hold reading material – like a menu or newspaper – farther from your eyes to see it clearly.

Multifocal contact lenses and bifocal contact lenses have a range of powers that allow you to see at more than one distance. Just like bifocal or progressive eye glasses.

Bifocal and multifocal contact lenses are available in both soft and rigid gas permeable (GP) materials. Today, there are numerous designs of bifocal and multifocal contact lenses to correct presbyopia. During your contact lens fitting we can help you decide whether bifocal/multifocal contact lenses or monovision is best for you.

Scleral Lenses
Scleral lenses are large diameter lenses which vault over the entire corneal surface and rest on the “white” of the eye (the sclera).

Scleral lenses are used mainly to treat diseased and surgically altered corneas. Some conditions that are treated with scleral lenses include Dry Eye Syndrome, Keratoconus and corneal ectasias, Graft vs Host Disease- GVHD, Stevens Johnson Syndrome, Sjogren’s Syndrome, Post-LASIK, and Post- Corneal Transplant.

Rigid Gas Permeable Contact Lenses
Rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lenses are rigid (hard) lenses made of durable plastic that transmit oxygen. These lenses are also called GP lenses, rigid gas permeable lenses (RGP) lenses and oxygen permeable lenses. RGP lenses transmit more oxygen to the eye than do traditional soft contact lenses.

RGP lenses also provide better vision, durability, and deposit resistance than soft contact lenses. RGP lenses can last for 1-2 years because they are very durable compared to soft contacts. They are made of materials that don’t contain water (as soft contact lenses do), so protein and lipids from your tears do not adhere to the lens as much. RGP lenses can be used for all prescriptions but are mostly utilized in patients with high prescriptions, high/irregular astigmatisms, and diseased or irregular corneas.

Keratoconus Lenses
Keratoconus is a relatively uncommon eye condition where the cornea becomes thinner and bulges forward. Gas permeable contact lenses are the treatment option of choice for mild and moderate keratoconus. Because they are rigid, GP lenses can help contain the shape of the cornea to prevent further bulging of the cornea. They also can correct vision problems caused by keratoconus that cannot be corrected with eyeglasses or soft contacts.

In some cases, a soft contact lens is worn under the GP lens for greater comfort. This technique is called “piggybacking.” Another option for some patients is a hybrid contact lens that has a GP center, surrounded by a soft “skirt”. Scleral lenses can also be used in some patients with keratoconus