It doesn’t matter how trendy your glasses frames are, they don’t quite stay on your face when you’re swimming or dancing or kicking a ball around.  Daytime contact lenses may be an alternative, however some people find them uncomfortable, they get dry eyes or they’re scared of losing them in the water or on the playing field.

If this sounds like you, and you want to stay active without the hassle of glasses or daytime contact lenses, try ortho-k.   Imagine no more glasses and no contact lenses for outdoor and indoor sporting and recreational activities like polo, yachting, fishing, soccer, football, dancing, ballet, swimming, scuba diving, surfing, diving, extreme sports.

No more glasses no more daytime contact lenses with ortho-k

This is a statement we hear often from our clients- they hate contacts because they get dry eyes, soft lenses tear, they fall out at the most incovenient times like when swimming, surfing, dancing, clubbing etc; or they just don’t like the inconvenience of having to put them in every morning.  Fair enough, I’ve been there too!

So how is ortho-k, which uses contact lenses any different?

Well, basically you wear the specially fitted lens at night to reshape your cornea, so that in the morning you can see without visal aids.  These lenses are generally no more difficult to insert or remove than any other similar contact lenses.  Once the Orthokeratology lens is on your eye, it does not physically push on the eye to change its shape. Instead it induces hydrostatic pressures in the tear film between the contact lens and the eye. This process of fluid dynamics causes a redistribution of the cells on the surface of the cornea (Corneal Epithelium).    Simply, these cells are redistributed slightly to change the surface shape of the eye and therefore change the focusing power of the eye.  The structure and integrity of the cornea is not affected. The cells return to their normal distribution within a few days after orthokeratology is discontinued.  If you stop wearing the lenses regularly while you sleep, your vision will return to its original state in as little as 72 hours.

If you’re wondering if these orthokeratology lenses may be right for you, but you’re worried about any pain, our clients have found that initially there was a slight awareness of the therapeutic lens. But you will not feel the lenses when you sleep and there is no sense of physical corneal change…. just visual improvement when the lenses are removed.

We’d love to know what other are reasons why contact lens wearers hate wearing contacts, let us know!