Digitally Designed Scleral Contact Lenses

Advanced Eaglet ESP 3-D eye surface profiling for BostonSight Scleral Smart360, ScanFitPRO, and Gaudí freeform scleral lenses.

At Vision Source – Orland Park, we use the Eaglet ESP 3-D Eye Surface Profiler to create detailed digital maps of the cornea, limbus, and sclera. These scans help us design fully customized scleral lenses for patients with complex eye shapes, including keratoconus, corneal ectasia, post-RK vision distortion, post-surgical corneas, severe dry eye, and other challenging ocular surface conditions.

Eaglet ESP gives us the shape data. From that data, Dr. DiGiorgio can design advanced digital scleral lenses using several leading platforms, including BostonSight Scleral Smart360, ScanFitPRO, and Gaudí digital scleral lenses.

Benefits of digitally designed scleral lenses may include:

A more customized fit based on the measured shape of your eye
Better alignment over irregular corneal and scleral surfaces
Improved comfort and lens stability for many complex eyes
More precise control of lens vault, limbal clearance, and landing zone
A more efficient fitting process in many cases

Eaglet 3D Eye Surface Profiler

Eaglet ESP 3-D Eye Surface Profiling

The Eaglet Eye Surface Profiler gives us a detailed 3-D map of the front surface of your eye, including the cornea, limbus, and sclera. It measures up to 500,000 points across a 20 mm area, helping us see subtle shape differences that are difficult to evaluate with standard testing alone.

This is especially helpful for patients with keratoconus, corneal ectasia, post-RK vision changes, post-surgical corneas, severe dry eye, pingueculas, or other complex eye shapes.

Dr. DiGiorgio uses this scan data to help design highly customized scleral lenses that better match the shape of your eye. Depending on your needs, your lens may be designed using BostonSight Scleral Smart360, ScanFitPRO, Gaudí, or another specialty scleral lens platform.

To learn more about the conditions treated with scleral lenses, including keratoconus, post-RK vision changes, corneal ectasia, and severe dry eye, visit our Scleral & Keratoconus Contact Lenses page.

Eaglet ESP 3-D Eye Surface Profiler used for digital scleral lens design

Eaglet 3-D scans showing different corneal and scleral shape patterns

Digital Scleral Lens Design Based on Your Eye Shape

The Eaglet ESP scan gives us detailed shape data from the front surface of the eye. Dr. DiGiorgio uses this information, along with your diagnosis, vision needs, comfort concerns, and previous contact lens history, to choose the most appropriate scleral lens design for your eyes.

Rather than fitting every patient with the same lens design, we select from multiple advanced digital scleral lens platforms based on the shape and needs of each eye. Depending on your individual situation, your lens may be designed using BostonSight Scleral Smart360, ScanFitPRO, Gaudí digital scleral lenses, or another advanced specialty scleral lens option.

Digitally designed scleral lenses can be customized to better match the unique shape of the eye.

Gaudí Digital Scleral Lenses

Gaudí digital scleral lens design helps customize the lens shape, landing zone, edge alignment, and vault.

Gaudí QS and Gaudí Legend are advanced digital, freeform scleral lenses designed from detailed eye-shape data. These lenses allow Dr. DiGiorgio to customize the lens design for complex corneal and scleral shapes, including keratoconus, corneal ectasia, post-RK irregularity, post-surgical corneas, scleral asymmetry, pingueculas, and severe dry eye.

Gaudí has become one of the major digital scleral lens platforms we use for complex cases, especially when a high level of customization is needed. Gaudí lenses give us precise control over the lens shape, landing zone, edge alignment, vault, and overall fit.

Dr. Joseph DiGiorgio has presented on designing Gaudí custom scleral lenses at the Global Specialty Lens Symposium in Las Vegas.

ScanFitPRO by EyePrint Prosthetics

ScanFitPRO combines Eaglet ESP scan data with CAD-based design software to create a highly customized scleral lens. The digital design is customized to the patient’s eye shape 360 degrees, helping improve lens alignment, comfort, stability, and vision.

After the lens is designed, the digital file is sent to the EyePrint Prosthetics manufacturing laboratory, where the customized ScanFitPRO scleral lens is produced.

BostonSight Scleral Smart360

BostonSight Scleral Smart360 uses Eaglet ESP scan data to create a custom scleral lens design based on the unique shape of the patient’s eye. This can be especially helpful for patients with keratoconus, irregular corneas, corneal ectasia, post-surgical corneas, and ocular surface disease.

Dr. Joseph DiGiorgio and Dr. Stephanie DiGiorgio are certified to fit BostonSight SCLERAL lenses. BostonSight Smart360 gives us another advanced digital option for patients who need a highly customized scleral lens design.

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Dr. DiGiorgio has written more about scleral profiling and advanced scleral lens design for patients and providers who want to understand how this technology helps us customize scleral lenses.

Is a Digitally Designed Scleral Lens Right for You?

Digitally designed scleral lenses may be recommended for patients with keratoconus, corneal ectasia, post-RK vision distortion, post-surgical corneas, severe dry eye, scleral asymmetry, or difficulty wearing standard contact lenses.

At Vision Source – Orland Park, Dr. DiGiorgio will evaluate your eye shape, ocular surface health, vision needs, and previous contact lens history to determine which scleral lens design is most appropriate for each eye.