Contact Lens Care Tips & Videos

These videos and tips are provided to help our patients care for their contact lenses safely and confidently. If you are having difficulty with insertion, removal, comfort, redness, or vision changes, please contact our office for personalized help.

Soft Contact Lens Care

Proper cleaning, replacement, and handling are important for keeping soft contact lenses comfortable and healthy. Follow your doctor’s instructions and avoid sleeping, swimming, or showering in lenses unless specifically directed.

Gas Permeable Contact Lens Care

Gas permeable (aka Oxygen Permeable) lenses require careful cleaning, storage, and handling. The video below reviews basic care techniques for GP lens wearers.

Scleral Lens (medically necessary contact lens) Care

Scleral lenses are often used for medically necessary contact lens care and require more detailed handling than standard soft lenses.

Recommended Filling Saline

We recommend preservative-free saline in single-use vials for filling scleral lenses.

ScleralFil — pH buffered, available online and stocked in our office.
LacriPure — preservative-free saline available through Menicon and some online retailers.

Tips for easier scleral lens insertion:

Tuck your chin down toward your chest.
Use a large scleral lens inserter with a hole in the bottom.
Overfill the lens bowl with preservative-free saline.
Keep both eyes open and look straight down into the lens.

These videos review standard scleral lens Insertion & removal techniques, including what to do if you do not have a suction cup available.

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

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 Recommend Single-Use Saline Vials

For filling scleral lenses, we recommend preservative-free saline in single-use vials. Once multi-dose bottles have been opened, they may become contaminated and are no longer our preferred option for scleral lens filling. For this reason, we advise our patients to use single-use saline vials whenever possible.

Why We Do Not Recommend 4 oz. Bottles of Saline for Filling Scleral Lenses

Studies suggest that off-label, multi-dose preservative-free saline bottles may become contaminated with microorganisms after opening. Scleral lens patients should be aware of this potential risk.

Many scleral lens practitioners are concerned that large multi-dose saline bottles may no longer remain sterile after they have been opened. To help reduce the risk of contamination, we do not recommend using multi-dose bottles as filling saline for scleral lenses.

Read the PubMed article on saline contamination

Having trouble with your contact lenses?

If you are experiencing discomfort, redness, blurred vision, insertion difficulty, removal difficulty, or scleral lens fogging, contact our office. Our doctors and staff can help troubleshoot your lens care routine.