Specialty Lenses

Specialty contact lenses are sometimes required for certain patients, particularly patients recovering from certain types of eye surgeries and patients for whom other types of contact lenses are unsuitable.

Specialty Contact Lenses offered by St. Charles Vision

Synergeyes A

The SynergEyes® A lens is the perfect choice for patients with astigmatism seeking better vision and more comfort in a contact lens. Soft contact lenses often compromise crisp vision while rigid lenses can be less comfortable and unstable on the eye. With SynergEyes® hybrid lenses, the “breathable” rigid center promotes corneal health and delivers high-definition vision, even at night, while the soft skirt provides comfort and stability all day long.

Synergeyes PS

Each SynergEyes® PS hybrid contact lens is created using patented SynergEyes® hybrid technology to deliver you the most advanced optics available on the market today. No other contact lens can offer you the unique benefits of SynergEyes® PS.

Discover this newfound vision if you have experienced:

Refractive surgery and need additional vision correction
Corneal trauma/Degenerative conditions
Penetrating keratoplasty and/or Intacs® for keratoconus

Synergeyes Multifocal

BY age 40 and up, even if you’ve never needed vision correction before, chances are you’ll begin to find yourself holding books and menus at arms length. Until now, aging eyes have had to compromise their vision for the freedom of contact lenses. Now, thanks to the new revolutionary SynergEyes® Multifocal hybrid contact lens, you can experience ageless vision near and far. The unique hybrid design eliminates the instability and soft optics issues of other multifocal contact lenses. You’ll never have to juggle multiple vision solutions, eyeglasses and bifocals, or bifocals and contacts, again.

Synergeyes KC

Utilizing revolutionary hybrid technology, SynergEyes® has developed a family of lenses that provide patients with the all-day comfort of soft contact lenses and the excellent visual clarity of rigid gas permeable lenses. Our contact lenses for keratoconus truly offer the best of both worlds. These features and benefits are not available in any other product on the market for the treatment of keratoconus.

Custom Extended Range Astigmatic

For the individual with severe amounts of astigmatism, custom extended power ranges are available by special order.

Custom Toric Options and Optix Custom

This is a soft contact lens for the most challenging prescriptions.

Progressive Toric

This is a specialty toric multifocal that provides presbyopic, astigmatic patients with excellent intermediate and near vision without compromising distance acuity.

Special Eyes Program

Special eyes deserve special attention. Restoring dignity and quality of life are worthy goals. The Special Eyes Program creates lenses which are designed to help mask eye disfigurement for a natural appearance. Thanks to our advanced technology, the eye’s normal appearance can be restored with soft contact lenses that have specially manufactured color.

Available with or without vision correction, these made-to-order contact lenses are designed to simulate the patterns and colors of the natural eye.

Orthokeratology

Wouldn’t it be great if your myopia or nearsightednesss could be corrected while you sleep? It might sound far-fetched, but it’s a reality for some people. It’s called corneal refractive therapy or ortho-k, and it is available at St. Charles Vision.

Here’s how it works: When you sleep, you wear special contact lenses that gently reshape the surface of your eye, so you can see clearly even after you remove the lenses. The effect is temporary — generally enough to get you through a day or so, but you must wear the special lenses each night.

Reshaping the cornea with contact lenses to improve vision isn’t new. Orthokeratology has been practiced by some eye doctors for decades. However, in the past ortho-k produced mixed results and was not FDA-approved for overnight use, so the procedure had limited appeal.

Then, in June 2002, the FDA granted overnight wear approval to a type of corneal reshaping called Corneal Refractive Therapy (CRT). More overnight ortho-k approvals followed.

At the same time, new manufacturing methods and lens designs were enabling orthokeratology lenses to achieve much higher success rates than experienced in the past. The performance of so-called “reverse geometry” or “return zone” designs have fueled new excitement about orthokeratology.

Find out more about Orthokeratology.