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Videos & Helpful Tips for Contact Lens Wearers

We hope these videos and tips help address some questions you may have about managing your contact lenses!  Come see us at Vision Source - Orland Park to learn more!

Soft Contact Lens Care

Adhere to our lens safety tips to help keep your lenses safe and comfortable.

Oxygen Permeable Contact Lens Care

Easy care and handling for oxygen permeable contacts

Scleral Lens (medically necessary contact lens) Care

We recommend preservative free saline in single use vials:

  • Addipak Saline in 3ml or 5 ml vials (says Solution for “Inhalation” USP) which can be found at VitalityMedical.com or on Amazon (we are not affiliated in any way with these companies).
  • LacriPure in single use vials, by Menicon.  Available online & we stock it in our office
  • ScleralFIL in single use vials, by Bausch & Lomb (this saline is pH buffered).  Available online & we stock it in our office (it has become more difficult to source)

Scleral Lens Insertion Tips:

  • Tuck chin downward towards chest
  • Place lens on LARGE suction cup (inserter must have a hole in the bottom to prevent it from suctioning to your lens)
  • Overfill lens with preservative free saline

 

Scleral Lens Insertion Video (brief)

 

Scleral Lens Removal Video (brief)

 

Scleral Lens Application & Removal–no tools–finger tripod method

 

Scleral Lens Application & Removal (Detailed Alt. 1)

 

Scleral Lens Application & Removal (Detailed Alt. 2)

 

Scleral Lens Removal  Without A Suction Cup (Very important if you lose your suction cup!!!)

 

 

Tips For Scleral lens wearers if surface filming occurs: Moisten a cotton tip applicator with saline,

Unique pH or Boston conditioner
(special thanks Dott. Daddi Fadel, Rome, Italy)

Moisten a your small plunger with saline, Unique pH or Boston conditioner
(special thanks Dott. Daddi Fadel, Rome, Italy)

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Scleral Device Patient Care Guide–by BostonSight Scleral 9/2023
Use & Care guide.  An excellent reference for our scleral device wearers:
Click Here For 24 Page PDF

Why We Don’t Recommend 4 oz. Bottles of Saline for Filling Scleral Lenses:
See this study which suggest that off-label multi-dose preservative-free saline may become contaminated with microorganisms once the bottle has been opened.  Scleral lens patients should be aware of these potential contaminations.

It is widely felt among scleral lens practitioners that large 4 oz. bottles are no longer sterile 48 hours after opening.  For this reason WE DO NOT RECOMMEND to use multi-dose bottles as filling saline
Click Here for PubMed Article on Saline Contamination

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