Contact Lenses: Find Freedom from Your Frames

Everybody deserves a little flexibility with their vision. Contact lenses can help you enjoy clear, comfortable vision while giving you a choice to wear eyeglasses or not! However, before you start wearing contact lenses, you first need a comprehensive contact lens exam and fitting.

This process helps us determine the correct prescription and lens type for you and your needs. Start today by booking your contact lens exam and fitting at Total Vision Golden Hills, formerly Golden Hills Optometry, today! Our eye doctors at looking forward to seeing you.

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Getting Contact Lenses

Getting your contact lenses is a simple and easy process, and we’re proud to walk you through it. However, before you can start wearing contacts, it’s essential to determine if your eyes are candidates for these types of lenses.

While most people can wear contact lenses comfortably, there are a few different eye conditions that could affect which lenses you can wear. To determine this, we go through an eye exam and contact lens fitting process.

Have an Eye Exam

The eye exam is the very first step toward getting contact lenses. We determine your prescription during an eye exam and look for specific eye problems that may affect which type of lens you can wear. Some of these conditions can include:

Dry eyes
Frequent eye infections
Corneal issues
Health issues
Eye diseases

Get Your Contacts Fitted

After the eye exam, it’s time to fit your contact lenses! During the fitting, we’ll measure your eye’s shape and size, including your cornea, iris, and pupils, and assess the quality of your tear film. Once we take these measurements, we’ll have a clear idea of which contact lens may be right for you.

Try Them Out!

Once your contacts are fitted, it’s time to try them out!

We’ll provide you with a trial pair for you to wear for about a week. We’ll also book a follow-up appointment to ensure you’re adjusting to your lenses or if you need any changes to your lenses or prescription.

Please remove your contacts and call us immediately if your eyes become red or irritated.

Types of Contact Lenses

Soft Contact Lenses

Soft contact lenses are a popular type of lens made of soft hydrogel materials. These lenses are generally easy to adjust to and come in single-day, overnight, or extended-wear types.

Rigid Gas-Permeable Lenses

Rigid gas-permeable lenses are made of rigid plastic polymers that help them last longer and provide crisper vision compared to soft contact lenses. However, they may take a little longer to adjust to.

Specialty Lenses

Some eye conditions could warrant the use of specialty contact lenses, including:

Book Your Appointment Today

It’s time to see the benefits contact lenses can provide you. Please book an appointment with our team today and free your vision!

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Our Brands

ACUVUE

The options are nearly endless when it comes to ACUVUE® brand contact lenses – the #1 contact lens brand in the world. Long-lasting comfort and clear vision can be yours with a contact lens in the ACUVUE® brand family.

Air Optix

Utilizing silicon hydrogel technology, Air Optix contact lenses are well known for comfort and oxygen permeability. They are available in a variety of prescriptions and varieties, including toric lenses.

Bausch + Lomb

Bausch + Lomb is one of the best-known and most respected healthcare brands globally, offering the widest and finest range of eye health products including contact lenses and lens care products, pharmaceuticals, intraocular lenses, and other eye surgery products.

Biofinity

Unlike many other silicone hydrogel lenses, Biofinity contact lenses incorporate a naturally wettable material that maintains a hydrophilic (water-loving) property throughout the lens. This means no surface treatments, additives, coatings, or wetting agents are needed.

Clariti 1-Day

All Clariti 1-Day lenses feature high water content — a key feature for comfort. AquaGen™ technology makes it possible. The AquaGen™ process creates a lens that naturally attracts and binds water molecules to the lens surface, so your eyes can stay moist and comfortable throughout your day.

Cooper My Day

CooperVision® MyDay® lenses feature everything you need for an exceptional overall daily disposable experience: all-day comfort, easy lens insertion and removal, and a highly breathable lens that helps provides a healthier lens-wearing experience.

Cooper Vision

We create and execute innovation that is unmatched in the contact lens industry. There's much more to our story than that, however. You'll find that what sets us apart is how we approach our business. We collaborate, we listen, and we enjoy what we do.

CooperVision Proclear

Proclear by CooperVision are a line of daily-disposable contact lenses with options available for nearly every corrective lens prescription need, including options for astigmatism. They feature Phosphorylcholine, a material that attracts water and encourages healthy eye hydration.

Dailies Total 1

Excellent comfort until the end of the day with breathable construction. This lens is designed to provide a surface that’s over 80% water, mimicking the same as the surface of your eye. Dailies Total 1 provide a new era in daily disposables.