Contact Lens Exam, Fitting, & Brands in San Mateo, San Jose, San Ramon, & Juneau

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Visual Clarity

If you wear contact lenses, you know how convenient they are and their ability to provide visual clarity. While contact lenses may look small and simple, the way in which they aid your vision can be quite complicated. Contact lenses are medical devices that need to be fit and evaluated annual with a Contact Lens Exam to make sure they aren’t causing serious risks to your eye health.

Our eyes change subtly over time, and prescriptions may need to be adjusted depending on the lens types or even the brands. Just because you have worn the same brand for years doesn’t mean you will be able to forever. Having a proper eye exam is key to maintaining the health of your eyes. Our doctors are dedicated to helping you find the perfect pair of contact lenses for your eyes and providing you with the necessary information you will need to utilize your contact lenses properly.

At Optical Illusions: An Optometric Practice, our contact lens exams are designed to not only ensure that your contact lenses are right for you, but that you are right for your contact lenses.

What is a
Contact Lens Exam?

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Compared to a regular eye exam, a contact lens exam involves gathering additional data measurements that help determine the shape and size of your eye’s surface. These measurements will determine what kind of contact lens will work best for your eyes. 

The Doctor optometrist will use a special device called a Pentacam AXL Wave that will take advanced measurements of the front surface of your eye to determine the most appropriate base curve and diameter of a contact lens for you. This was previously done with 3 separate devices called a keratometer, topographer, biometer.

Our doctors determine if you can produce sufficient enough tears to keep your contact lenses moist and lubricated. If your tear film cannot produce an adequate quantity or quality of tears, then contact lenses may not be safe or comfortable for you to wear contacts for extended periods of time.

A slit lamp is used to evaluate the overall health of your cornea. This tool will magnify the view of your cornea up to 40x and help our doctors determine if your lenses are too loose or too tight, and if they are causing any oxygen deprivation to the cornea. If you already wear contact lenses and are experiencing any kind of discomfort, this procedure can help determine what issues that your current pair of lenses are causing to your eyes.

Our eye doctors will check the health of your meibomian glands, or oil glands, that sit at the base of the eyelid margins. Blockages of these glands can cause inflammation and hordeloums, or styes which decrease the comfort and longevity of contact lens usage.

Some patients have irregular corneas caused by injury, dystrophies, or degenerating conditions and cannot wear regular soft contact lenses. Many of our doctors are able to fit a variety of specialty contact lenses that could be the solution for those specific needs.

These special lenses include rigid gas permeable (RGP) lenses, hybrid lenses, scleral lenses, bitoric lenses, and custom soft lenses.

Our Brands

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ACUVUE

The options are nearly endless when it comes to ACUVUE® brand contact lenses – the #1 contact lens brand in the world. Long-lasting comfort and clear vision can be yours with a contact lens in the ACUVUE® brand family.

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Alcon

Alcon has one mission: to provide innovative products that enhance quality of life by helping people see better. Alcon is uniquely poised to serve every contact lens wearer by addressing the full life cycle of their needs.

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Bausch + Lomb

Bausch + Lomb is one of the best-known and most respected healthcare brands globally, offering the widest and finest range of eye health products including contact lenses and lens care products, pharmaceuticals, intraocular lenses, and other eye surgery products.

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CooperVision Misight

Eye Care Professionals Can Begin Fitting the World’s First One-Day Soft Contact Lens Shown to Substantially Slow the Progression of Myopia in Children. Millions of children across Canada are poised to benefit from a breakthrough therapy that addresses the fast-growing issue of myopia (nearsightedness), which is projected to negatively affect more than 50 percent of the world’s population by 2050. CooperVision MiSight® 1 day contact lenses are now available for fitting by Eye Care Professionals. An American brand, it is the world’s first one-day soft contact lens clinically proven to substantially slow the progression of myopia in children.

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Johnson & Johnson

As a primary resource to optometrists and eye care professionals, Johnson & Johnson aims to make the world a better place by providing health solutions for everyone. Explore well-known, trusted products with a brand responsible for improving daily lives.

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NaturalVue

VTI’s mission is to redefine vision through advanced engineering and a relentless drive to achieve better solutions through the fusion of science, art and technology. Find clean, clear, and comfortable vision with NaturalVue contact lenses.

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Paragon

Paragon offers a surgery and glasses free method of correcting and controlling myopia. Paragon CRT lenses work for children or adults, gently reshaping the cornea while you sleep. After about a week of nightly wear, you’ll be able to go without glasses or contacts during the day. Try Paragon’s CRT lenses and discover daily freedom from myopia.

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Wave Contacts

Wave contact lenses are made like no other by using the Scout Topographer and Wave Contact Lens Software. The idea is simple: create a lens that nearly mirrors the cornea for the most precise and comfortable fit available. Regardless of the design, Wave produces a lens that is thinner, more comfortable and better centred.

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Zenlens

Zenlens scleral lenses are designed to bring ultimate comfort and stability. These remarkable lenses can be fine-tuned to give the ideal fit. Zenlens contacts are an excellent choice for visual clarity and ocular comfort.

Our Locations

San Mateo

  • 194 Hillsdale Shopping Center
  • San Mateo, CA 94403

San Jose

  • 377 Santana Row, Suite #1115
  • San Jose, CA 95128

San Ramon

  • 6000 Bollinger Canyon Road, Suite #1104
  • San Ramon, CA 94583

Juneau

  • 9309 Glacier Hwy, Suite A103
  • Juneau, AK 99801

Complete
Family Eye Exams

An eye exam is an essential part of preventive health care. At Optical Illusions: An Optometric Practice, we invest in industry-leading diagnostic technology that gives us an unprecedented view of your eye health and vision.

With this technology, we can provide truly personalized and comprehensive eye care to patients of all ages.

Access high-quality eye care from a team that genuinely cares.

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