Adaptation of contact lenses or contact lenses

All the contact lensesjust like glasses or refractive surgery, can make up for your myopia, farsightedness y astigmatism. The use of contact lenses in our country is very popular.

About 6-10% of people who need vision correction wear contact lenses, but just because they've become so popular doesn't mean that contact lenses adaptation of contact lenses or contact lenses have less importance.

Adaptation of contact lenses or contact lenses

All the contact lensesjust like glasses or refractive surgery, can make up for your myopia, farsightedness y astigmatism. The use of contact lenses in our country is very popular.

About 6-10% of people who need vision correction wear contact lenses, but just because they've become so popular doesn't mean that contact lenses adaptation of contact lenses or contact lenses have less importance.

Who is contact lens fitting for?

There is no graduation limit that prevents the use of contact lenses.

While some people take advantage of the fashion factor by wearing glasses, others prefer to see well without them. Contact lenses can achieve clear vision without the need for irreversible refractive surgery. Contact lenses can also provide a campor full vision without obstruction, appearance ideal for athletes.

Contact lenses have been around for over a hundred years. During that time, many advances have allowed cso everyone can wear contact lenses. If you've been told in the past that you can't adjust to contact lenses, chances are that's not true now. We now have more technologically advanced and healthier contact lens options than ever before..

If you have never worn contact lenses, the first step is to see an eye care professional who can manage your fitting. He will assess your visual needs, eye structure and the condition of your tear to help determine the best type of contact lens for you. 

Contact lenses adaptation

The first thing to do for a correct adaptation of contact lenses is to schedule one ophthalmologic review for rule out any pathology that prevents the proper use of contact lenses. This review also serves to agree on the conditions of use and what will be the guidelines for monitoring the adaptation, if it ends up being carried out.

El adaptation study of contact lenses that we make en Área Oftalmológica Avanzada includes:

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  1. Specific anamnesis: battery of questions related to the user. From the reason for use to the usual activities carried out.
  2. Objective assessment of the condition of the cornea and the tear, which are the two most important elements in the use of contact lenses. It includes corneal staining and the measures that are considered appropriate to carry out: amount of tear, quality….
  3. High precision corneal topography, with image analysis of eye redness, tear quality, eyelids and, if necessary, corneal thickness and anterior face topography (very important in post-surgical adaptations)
  4. Decision of the diagnostic lens to assess, based on the physical data obtained together with the interests of use exposed by the user.
  5. Diagnostic test with contact lenses: The professional will determine the time of use for an initial use assessment.
  6. Practices in the handling and care of contact lenses.
  7. The patient begins to use the contact lenses in their usual environment, and a first control to the 7 or 14 days.
  8. If everything is correct, the patient will start wearing contact lenses according to the agreed regimen. The control to register, habitually it is done after three months of use. If everything is still correct, the patient is discharged, providing him with a prescription with the identification data of the contact lenses, thus being able to acquire them wherever he wishes.
  9. If, on the contrary, it is necessary to carry out some parameter change, the process is started again asking for the new diagnostic lenses.

Readaptation of contact lenses

This unit is specialized in cases of abandonment of the use of contact lenses or in patients with significant problems for current use.

To the tests of a normal adaptation study, three very important aspects are added:

Full retrospective anamnesis (ldc-chronogram)

Here we will value the historical use of the patient, trying to obtain as much information as possible, both on the materials used and the maintenance systems used.

Much of this information can be requested at the centers where the different contact lenses used have been adapted. This allows us to get an idea of what may be the cause of rejection or the one that forced the abandonment in its use.

Special analysis of the tear

In most cases the tear disorder It is one of the tolls paid by the user who has had significant problems with contact lenses, making readaptation difficult.

La osmolarity assessment of the tear can help minimize this aspect.

Eyelid assessment

El eyelid system may have affected the use of contact lenses. Using imaging software, basic information is obtained to decide the strategy to follow in contact lens readaptation.

From this assessment, a decision on the material, design, initial use regime and the system of maintenance of contact lenses. In some cases, the use regime is based on a continued use to avoid factors associated with handling or maintenance solutions, to be able to assess, at baseline, the response of the patient's visual system.

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Adaptation of contact lenses or contact lenses
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We explain everything you need to know about the adaptation of contact lenses or contact lenses. Who can fit lenses, the process and the protocol.
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