Prosthetic Lenses

We offer prosthetic lenses which are specially manufactured and used for persons who have suffered an eye injury that has caused the eye to become somehow disfigured. They're also worn by individuals who have lived with an eye defect since birth. Such injuries and defects can leave the eye looking abnormal. For example, sometimes there is one big black circle where normally there would be a dark pupil surrounded by an eye color. A condition known as albinism might result in one eye being lighter in color than the other. The pupils might for some reason be misshapen or a person may have a deficiency in his or her color vision.

When you look at someone, one of the first things you notice is the other person's eyes. What you may not notice is that sometimes, those eyes that peer back are covered with prosthetic contact lenses. Prosthesis is any artificially-created device that's been created to replace a body part. Most often it's the prosthetic limbs that grab the media attention, but prosthesis can be created for various body parts including heart valves, teeth and even the eyes.

Prosthetic contact lenses are not the same as prosthetic eyes. When just the lens needs replacement, it means that the eye still is intact. The prosthetic contact lens fits right over the eye, just as any type of contact lens would. It requires the same type of maintenance routine as other types of contact lenses and it feels the same, too.