Contact Lenses

Contact lenses can be a truly life-changing experience for many spectacle-wearers, but they may not suit everyone. If you’ve never worn ‘contacts’ before, we’d be happy to help and advise.

Here at Jackson and Gill we are able to fit all types of contact lenses and will discuss the best type for your prescription and lifestyle. That may depend on whether you would like to wear them all the time, or just occasionally – be that for sports or recreation, or just an evening out.

What are the key benefits of contact lenses?

Principally, it’s the convenience. There may be times in your life when putting on a pair of glasses isn’t the best option. Playing sports, for example, when the simple physicality of having a set of frames perched on your nose restricts your gameplay. Since contact lenses are actually flush with the surface of each eye, and move with them, there’s no restriction to your peripheral vision. That ball, heading past the “corner of your eye” won’t be obscured by the frame.

For most people, wearing contact lenses is surprisingly easy. It may seem counter-intuitive to put something into, or onto, your eyes, but in reality contact lenses are actually very easy to wear. With practice, it takes just a few seconds to insert and remove them, and once they are in place, wearing them becomes second nature. You won’t even know they are there .… except you’ll be able to see so much better!

Contact lenses also have the benefit of being invisible. For whatever reason, some people are still self-conscious about wearing glasses, and having contact lenses as an alternative can boost confidence and self-esteem.

We can supply contact lenses to suit almost any prescription. In the early days, contacts were really only suitable for those needing very basic vision correction, but there have been huge advances in optical technology in recent years. This means that contact lenses can now be used to address far more challenging issues, including corneal damage, dry eye, keratoconus and complex refractive errors. If you have an astigmatism or need varifocal spectacles, it’s still possible to use contact lenses, and there is increasing evidence that fitting children with contact lenses (or spectacles) can reduce the incidence of shortsightedness or Myopia in later life.

We’d be pleased to offer advise on which contact lenses might be right for you, and we are happy to offer a free trial. Please ask us for more information.