Contact Lens Eye Exam in Allendale, MI
Personalized Eye Exams Unlike Any Other
Properly fitting your contact lenses requires a few things: selecting the correct lens type, accurately determining the shape of your eyes, ensuring a comfortable fit, and making sure the selected lenses match your needs and lifestyle. Our experts handle all of this and more, using state-of-the-art tech and their in-depth expertise to guarantee that your contact lenses fit and work perfectly. Whether you need a contact lens exam for standard contacts or a specialty lens to treat dry eye, keratoconus, or Sjögren’s syndrome, our results are delivered through passionate, top-quality service.
Contact lenses sit directly on the eye, so the exam for contacts is different than what you’d receive for eyeglasses. Beyond accurately identifying your vision prescription, contact lens eye exams must also guarantee that your contacts will sit comfortably without irritation. We cater to you and your family by taking extra time to ask questions and use high-tech diagnostics to understand your eyes inside and out. That way our recommendation fully accommodates all your needs — not just your prescription.
Contact lens exams check for unique issues specific to contacts. They check front-of-eye health and pay special attention to the types of conditions that affect the front of your eye, including the cornea. Our thorough contact lens exams can also identify if you will benefit from our wide range of specialty contact lens options. It is important for contact lens exams to be as thorough as possible because ill-fitting contacts are uncomfortable and can cause vision problems.
In addition to scleral and rigid gas permeable lenses, our sister practice, Rejuvenation Dry Eye Center, has advanced tech that we’ll use to understand your eyes and a large range of innovative solutions to offer immediate and long-lasting relief.
Regardless of your needs, contact lens fittings are an important part of the process that give us the information we need with regards to your eye shape and health. Our staff, led and trained by Dr. Nick Lillie, have extensive experience fitting contact lenses and will identify the best type of lens for your needs, allowing you to live your life with clear vision, worry free.
Our Specialty Contact Lens Options
At Family Vision Optical, we offer a diverse range of specialty contact lens options so every one of your needs can be met, whether you’re struggling with an eye condition, or your eyes are too sensitive for traditional lenses. For us, it follows our mission of providing hope to our patients.
Scleral
Scleral lenses are larger than standard lenses, which cover the entire corneal surface and rest on the less sensitive white part of your eye, called the sclera. They’re great for treating dry eye disease or people with irregularly shaped corneas. Family Vision Optical is one of the few eye care practices that offer these hard-to-fit, but highly effective, lenses.
Ortho K & Myopia Management Lenses
Ortho-K (orthokeratology) lenses are special contact lenses you wear overnight to gently reshape the front surface of your eye. Known as “eye retainers,” ortho-k lenses allow you to see clearly during the day without glasses or contacts, and they also assist in slowing myopia’s progression.
Rigid Gas Permeable
Rigid Gas Permeable lenses are firm contacts that offer clear vision, especially if you have high prescriptions or astigmatism. They’re made of durable, breathable materials that let oxygen pass through to your eyes, ensuring that they’re always healthy and comfortable.
Multifocal
Multifocal lenses are an all-in-one solution for your eyes that combine different prescriptions into one contact lens. They help you see clearly at all distances, whether you’re reading a book up close, working on a computer, or driving and need to see far away.
Astigmatism
Also known as toric lenses, these specialty contacts are designed to fit eyes with astigmatism, a common condition where the eye isn’t perfectly round. Toric lenses have a unique shape that corrects the refractive errors that occur with astigmatism — they are weighted at the bottom to stay in position, giving you clear, reliable vision.
Scleral
Scleral
Scleral lenses are larger than standard lenses, which cover the entire corneal surface and rest on the less sensitive white part of your eye, called the sclera. They’re great for treating dry eye disease or people with irregularly shaped corneas. Family Vision Optical is one of the few eye care practices that offer these hard-to-fit, but highly effective, lenses.
Ortho K & Myopia Management Lenses
Ortho K & Myopia Management Lenses
Ortho-K (orthokeratology) lenses are special contact lenses you wear overnight to gently reshape the front surface of your eye. Known as “eye retainers,” ortho-k lenses allow you to see clearly during the day without glasses or contacts, and they also excel at slowing myopia’s progression.
Rigid Gas Permeable
Rigid Gas Permeable
Rigid Gas Permeable lenses are firm contacts that offer clear vision, especially if you have high prescriptions or astigmatism. They’re made of durable, breathable materials that let oxygen pass through to your eyes, ensuring that they’re always healthy and comfortable.
Multifocal
Multifocal
Multifocal lenses are an all-in-one solution for your eyes that combine different prescriptions into one contact lens. They help you see clearly at all distances, whether you’re reading a book up close, working on a computer, or driving and need to see far away.
Astigmatism
Astigmatism
Also known as toric lenses, these specialty contacts are designed to fit eyes with astigmatism, a common condition where the eye isn’t perfectly round. Toric lenses have a unique shape that corrects the refractive errors that occur with astigmatism — they are weighted at the bottom to stay in position, giving you clear, reliable vision.
Bifocal
Bifocal
Bifocal lenses are like having two glasses in one: they have two distinct lens prescriptions to help you see clearly both far away and up close. They help with age-related changes in vision, like difficulty reading small print, and are great for people who want to avoid reading glasses.
Why Choose Family Vision Optical for Your Contact Lens Exams
If asked what we thought our family deserved, we’d respond with “the very best.” And that’s what we offer with our contact lens eye exams. At Family Vision Optical, we don’t merely fix your sight — we listen patiently to your concerns, soothe your worries, and make sure that you’re comfortable with every one of our suggestions and treatments. With the added help of our ultra-modern tech, our thorough assessments will tell us exactly what we need to know, freeing up our friendly, knowledgeable staff to treat you how family ought to be treated: with the best!