An Alternative to Prescription Glasses
Contact lenses are an excellent option to take a break from your prescription glasses while still enjoying the same clear vision. We offer comprehensive contact lens exams and fittings to help ensure your new contact lenses fit safely and comfortably.
Our custom-made contact lens services help our patients who have received referrals from corneal specialists to find the right fit.
Our fitting process uses innovative technology to get precise measurements of your eyes for comfortable and accurate results. Contact us to schedule your contact lens exam and explore your options today.
Book AppointmentHow Contact Lenses Help
Contact lenses, similar to your glasses, help correct refractive errors such as myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), presbyopia, and astigmatism.
Specialty contacts can also help manage eye conditions like dry eye and keratoconus, allowing you to wear contact lenses comfortably. During your exam, we review your lifestyle and preferences to determine what lenses are the best fit.
The Fitting Process with Custom Lenses
Our contact lens services feature custom-made lenses and innovative technology to get accurate mapping and measurements of your eyes. Our customized contacts help address hard-to-fit eyes, extensive corneal scarring, and other eye issues.
Our team uses optical coherence tomography (OCT) for fittings and the Oculus Keratograph to assess your eye health and map the entire surface of your cornea.
Following testing, we’ll fit you with a trial pair of lenses and schedule follow-up appointments to check how your eyes react and adjust to your new lenses. If an adjustment is required, we can help find the right lenses for your comfort and vision correction needs.
Types of Contact Lenses
Contact lenses fall under 2 main categories, soft contact lenses and rigid gas-permeable (RGP). Under these main categories are specialty options that we use to correct various vision problems and eye issues.
Scleral Contact Lenses
Scleral lenses are a specialty type of RGP lens that sits on the sclera (white of your eyes), unlike traditional contacts that rest directly on your cornea.
Scleral contacts can be an excellent option for patients who have trouble wearing contacts due to eye conditions such as dry eye and keratoconus. These lenses vault over the cornea and allow for more space, providing extra breathability by creating a fluid reservoir between the lens and the eye to keep your eyes hydrated.
Orthokeratology
Ortho-k lenses are RGP contacts worn overnight to help control myopia progression. These lenses gently reshape the cornea and are designed to reduce dependence on contact lenses or glasses throughout the day. Ortho-k lenses are inserted at night before you sleep and removed in the morning, allowing for clear, frame-free vision throughout the day.
While being a primary treatment method for myopia, ortho-k lenses can also be effective in managing dry eyes.
Toric Contact Lenses
Toric lenses are designed to correct astigmatism. These lenses are typically thicker, larger, and more stable than other lens options. The lens is designed for a non spherical cornea—as astigmatism causes an uneven surface, resulting in blurred vision. Therefore, toric lenses can also correct resulting nearsightedness or farsightedness.
Toric lenses require a more precise fit to match your eye’s unique shape. Our team can help you get a comfortable and safe fit.
Multifocal Contact Lenses
Multifocal contact lenses incorporate multiple prescriptions to help correct vision issues such as presbyopia, hyperopia, and myopia. A bifocal lens features 2 different prescriptions in the same lens, commonly a solution for patients with blurry near and far vision.
With multiple prescriptions in a single lens, you can comfortably move through activities like reading or driving without reaching for glasses or switching contacts.
Hybrid Contact Lenses
Hybrid lenses have an RGP center with softer edges made of hydrogel or silicone hydrogel materials. Hybrid lenses combine the comfort of soft contacts and provide the crisp vision of RGP lenses.
Hybrid lenses are also excellent for physical activity as they are larger with thin edges, making them less likely to fall out. New-generation hybrid lenses have also been shown to be a good option for patients with keratoconus.
Our Brands
Blanchard
Supplying Optometrists with quality contact lenses since 1986. A refreshing change from other name brand manufactures, Blanchard prides itself on their crisp vision and unique soft and custom made lenses in a variety of specialty designs.
Johnson and Johnson
Eye health is one of the most underserved segments in healthcare today—and the need is growing rapidly. At Johnson & Johnson Vision, we are committed to advancing eye health.
Precision
Precision Contact Lenses carry 34 years of quality and innovation with them. All of these special lenses are made to order, providing vision quality and comfort tailored to your exact needs.
Comprehensive Contact Lens Services
Our team prioritizes your safety and comfort throughout our contact lens exam and fitting to help you find the best fit.
Contact us to schedule your contact lens exam and fitting and find your new contact lens solution today.
Visit Our Location
You can find us on Shefford Rd., right next to the DriveTest Centre. There’s plenty of parking available on both sides and at the back of our building.
Our Address
- 879 Shefford Road
- Ottawa, ON K1J 8H9
Contact Information
- Phone: 613-842-9325
- Fax: 613-842-9324
- Email: info@medviewoptometry.com
Hours of Operation
- Monday: 8:30 AM – 4:45 PM
- Tuesday: 8:30 AM – 4:45 PM
- Wednesday: 8:30 AM – 4:45 PM
- Thursday: 9:00 AM – 6:45 PM
- Friday: 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM
- Saturday: Closed
- Sunday: Closed
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When focusing on screens for long periods, we’re giving our eyes quite the workout. Try squatting in a sitting position for that long without a break! Not only that, we tend to blink less when focused on a task. All this leading to strain and eye discomfort.However, there’s an easy fix. Every twenty minutes, look […]
Low-Vision and ARMD February
February is Low-Vision and ARMD Awareness Month! To join in this month of awareness, we’re going to overview what low-vision means, then later on in the month we’re going take a look at a common example in particular: Age-Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD). To start us off– what many people would consider blindness is not actually […]
Back to School
It’s the start of the school year, a time both cherished and dreaded by parents and kids! No one wants their kids to be under-prepared! Paying attention in class all day can be difficult for the keenest of kids, but it can be even harder if kids can’t follow along because they can’t distinguish what’s […]
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Medview Optometry Clinic
- 879 Shefford Road
- Ottawa, ON K1J 8H9
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P: 613-842-9325
F: 613-842-9324
info@medviewoptometry.com