Contact Lenses
Contact Lenses
Sharpe and Fowler offers a full range of contact lens services and supplies including
- disposable contact lenses including high oxygen lenses
- single use daily disposable contact lenses
- cosmetic/ tinted contact lenses
- 'bifocal' contact lens options for people needing reading glasses
- contact lenses for overnight wear
- rigid gas permeable and specialty contact lenses
Contact lenses are an excellent option for either full-time or part-time wear - for sports and hobbies.
The options available to us in contact lenses keep widening, and so there's hope for people who previously have had difficulty with contact lenses or been told that contact lenses are not for them.
We specialise in the more complex fitting needed for people with
- dry eyes
- ocular allergy
- keratoconus and other corneal disorders
- corneal graft recipients
- previously unsuccessful contact lens wearers.
Eye Health Facts
Seeing in the dark
Vision in the dark continues to improve for about 30 minutes after being in bright light, as our eyes switch over from the colour-rich, crisp vision of daylight to the less crisp but more sensitive vision of night.
Once the eyes are adapted to dark, their most sensitive area is off to one side of 'straight ahead', making it possible to sense something out of the corner of your eye that disappears when you look straight at it.
Retinal degenerations, a genetic condition called retinitis pigmentosa, and Vitamin A deficiency can all reduce night vision.