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Eye & Contact Lens Factsheets

DANGERS OF CONTACT LENS WEAR!

"The biggest risk factor in Contact Lens wear
is the person wearing them"
Geoff Wilson quote

After Care of Contact Lenses is all too frequently neglected sometimes with disastrous results!

When I established my unique Specialist Contact Lens Practice in 1973, I deliberately set out to emphasise to patients the need for the regular checks so VITAL to maintain a normal HEALTHY eye. I believe the success of the practice, its reputation and the high level of recommendations that we enjoy from thousands of satisfied wearers is a tribute to this policy. This Fact Sheet is intended to reassure the apprehensive and to persuade those ignorant of the full facts why regular checks are so essential for the maintenance of a "HEALTHY EYE" and hence safe, life long, Contact Lens wear.

MUCH NONSENSE is spoken about the safety of Contact Lenses. Like any other product there is a wide range of different quality lenses available - we will only prescribe lenses we believe safe for your needs. If a Contact Lens Practitioner has sufficient specialist experience and equipment then virtually everyone can now wear lenses. It matters not how complicated the prescription is or how demanding the eyes, there is virtually certain to be at least one form out of the hundreds we specialise in that will be suitable. Whether it be conventional single vision flexible oxygen permeable lenses, bifocal soft lenses or soft lenses for astigmatism that can be slept in for weeks at a time. Contact lenses are now regularly coping with virtually every challenge put before them.

MUCH ABUSED Contact Lenses unfortunately are not always treated with the respect they need. It is this, and lack of adequate after care checks, that sometimes give them a bad image. In other words even when a Practitioner gives the proper advice on the use of lenses patients themselves can create problems which need never occur!

MUCH IMPORTANCE must be placed on only wearing lenses which are in "first class" condition. All forms of Contact Lenses do accumulate a certain level of contamination through normal handling, degrade microscopically with age and gain some surface scratches which can reduce their efficiency on the eye and place the "NORMAL HEALTHY EYE" in danger.