Advanced Contact  Lens Care

We specialize in contact lens care, especially the hard to fit cases using our lab to design customize lens surfaces. Dr Blaze has over 25 years of experience caring for contact lens wearing patients, from those with routine visual problems like nearsightedness and farsightedness to those with eye diseases like keratoconus, post corneal transplantation and patients having suffered eye injuries and disease who require contact lenses to restore normal vision.

Our office is equipped with the most advanced diagnostic technology like the Alcon Corneal Topography system. Corneal topography creates a detailed colored power map showing the shape of the front of the eye. Using this data, Dr. Blaze can precisely design your contact lenses. Topography is also very sensitive to the changes that contact lens wear can induce in the human eye. Periodic topography while wearing contact lenses allows Dr. Blaze to find potential problems before they adversely affect your eyes.

Our office utilizes the newest design contact lenses including the new soft and gas permeable bifocal contacts.  Helping the contact lens wearer who also needs reading glasses is one of the things we enjoy most.  For bifocal or multi-focal users, our research involving aspheric bifocal contact lenses has been gratifying.  Although many bifocal contact lenses have not proven successful, recent aspheric designs similar to the spectacle progressive multi-focal have worked well in some prescriptions.  In the rigid contact lens design there is no line, instead a blended reading zone starting in the mid-periphery of the lens outward.  Notice the figure here and explore the Metro-Optics website for more details.  If you've been told in the past that you can't wear contact lenses, ask Dr. Blaze for his opinion.

In addition, we design prosthetic contact lens when the cornea or iris that has been damaged. We use the Nikon photo slit lamp to help us match the other eye with a hand painted contact lens. In the case of a damaged iris the opaque black or colored lens not only improves cosmetics, but reduces glare and light sensitivity.

Dr. Blaze has been involved in many research studies and has recognized that soft contact lens deposits and dehydration is a natural response by the eye to a foreign object. Biomedics XC lenses utilize patented PC Technology™ to create a unique material that contains molecules of phosphorylcholine (PC),a substance found naturally in human cell membranes.These PC molecules attract and surround themselves with water, keeping Biomedics XC lenses healthy, moist and comfortable all day long.  We find this new polymer to address some of the dry eye complaints and is used in a monthly disposable format.