Contact Lens Exams | Saint Joseph

Clear Vision, Glasses-Free

Experience the freedom, visual clarity, and comfort that contact lenses offer. Contacts aren’t just for certain prescriptions. We offer a variety of specialty lenses designed for “hard-to-fit” eyes, including those with high prescriptions, astigmatism, or other conditions.

At Go Vision, we custom-fit contact lenses for many people who thought contact lenses weren’t an option for them. We also offer contact lenses for children, including specialty myopia control lenses.

Ready to try contact lenses again? Book your appointment today.

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What to Expect During a Contact Lens Exam

Before you get fitted for contact lenses, we’ll assess the overall health of your eye. During this assessment, we’ll discuss any questions or concerns you have and determine which style of contacts will work for you.

Once we’ve decided which contact lens style to fit, we’ll use a corneal topographer to map the shape of your cornea (the clear part of your eye in front of the iris). This allows us to get a precise fit for your new contacts.

After your contact lens exam, we’ll explain how to care for your lenses and keep them clean. When your contacts are ready, we’ll book a fitting appointment to check that the fit is comfortable and your vision is clear.

Our Specialty Contact Lenses

At Go Vision, we believe that everyone should have the option to wear the eyewear they prefer, whether that be glasses or contacts. That’s why our optometrists go beyond fitting standard soft and rigid gas-permeable (RGP) contacts and offer a variety of specialty options.

The shape of your eyes shouldn’t dictate whether you’re able to go glasses-free. Our optometrists can customize contacts for eyes that are difficult to fit, including those with high astigmatism, keratoconus, Sjögren’s syndrome, corneal transplants or scarring, and dry eye disease.

Regardless of your contact lens needs, we’ve got you covered.

Scleral Contacts

These large-diameter lenses sit on the white of your eye (the sclera) and vault over your cornea without touching it. You’ll fill the space between the lens and your cornea with saline to provide a clear, comfortable, and hydrating fit.

Scleral lenses are a great option for people with abnormal corneas from scarring, keratoconus, or other conditions, as well as for those with severe dry eye or Sjögren’s Syndrome.

Aspheric Contacts

Custom-fit to you, aspheric contact lenses feature a varied curvature that provides clear, sharp vision for people with distinct eye aberrations (imperfections that impact vision). Aspheric contact lenses can reduce eye strain in those who struggle with standard spherical lenses.

Hybrid Contacts

Hybrid contact lenses combine the rigid centre of RGP lenses for crisp vision with a soft silicone hydrogel skirt for a comfortable fit. Hybrid lenses may help those with irregularities to their cornea, as well as reducing the risk of dry eye due to the silicone hydrogel material.

Multifocal Contacts

Just as multifocal glasses allow you to see near and far distances without switching glasses, multifocal contacts include different prescription levels that correct near, intermediate, and far distance vision seamlessly. These lenses offer a convenient option for those with presbyopia who prefer to wear contacts.

Toric Contacts

Toric contact lenses are specially designed for people with astigmatism. Instead of having the same curve all the way around, these lenses have different curvatures in different directions. That means they can correct both the shape of your eye and your prescription at the same time. Built-in stabilizing features help them stay in the right position on your eye so your vision stays clear and consistent.

Sports Contacts

Wearing contacts while playing sports has the added benefit of not needing to worry about the safety and fit of your glasses staying on while in motion.

Regular contact lenses don’t provide sun protection on their own, which can make outdoor play challenging. That’s why we offer tinted sports contact lenses, like Altius, which combine the clarity of contacts with built-in light filtering, helping reduce glare, boost contrast, and keep your eyes more comfortable during the game.

Ortho-K and Myopia Control Lenses

Myopia control, or the methods used to slow the progression of nearsightedness in children, may include contact lenses. We can fit contacts for kids around 8 years old, although each child is different. If your child is interested in going glasses-free, talk to us about our contact lenses for kids.

We fit children for a variety of contact lenses, with some in particular to help with myopia control. Ortho-k lenses, for example, are worn overnight to gently reshape the cornea and allow your child to see clearly in the morning without any corrective lenses.

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Give Contacts a Try

Whether you’ve worn contacts in the past and found them uncomfortable, or are interested in trying them for the first time, we can help you find a custom-fit lens style that suits your unique eyes.

Additionally, our team is here to help you with financing and convenient online orders. We offer free shipping on contact lens orders and a manufacturer’s rebate that is typically higher than that of online retailers. Rebates will vary based on the quantity purchased, the style of lens, and whether the lens brand is new to you. The usual rebate ranges are as follows:

Acuvue lenses $75–$200
Alcon lenses $100–$300
Bausch & Lomb lenses $50–$100
Cooper Vision lenses $30–$200

We want to make your next contact lens experience as comfortable as possible. Beyond our pricing options, we’ll also work with your vision plan to get as much covered by your insurance as we can. Contact our team for more information or book your contact lens fitting today.

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Our Lenses

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.

Alcon

Alcon has one mission: to provide innovative products that enhance quality of life by helping people see better. Alcon is and uniquely poised to serve every contact lens wearer by addressing the full life cycle of their needs. Designed in the USA.

Altius

ALTIUS™ Performance Tinted Single-Use Soft Contact Lenses, by Performance Vision Technologies, Inc. (PVTI), a Delaware Corporation, is the result of decades of research and development with the goal of developing “Game-Changing” scientifically-based optical solutions to address unmet needs across the wide range of lighting conditions encountered in sports, recreation, education or work. We have assembled a talented “Team” of experts, advisors, and cutting-edge partners to research, design, develop, manufacture, and distribute ALTIUS™. This “Team’s” mission is to deliver innovative product solutions that ensure the most comfortable, clearest and quickest visual performance possible. With that in mind we will continue to innovate and bring to market additional ALTIUS™ Performance Tints to “Reveal What’s Possible”.

Art optical

Art Optical creates outstanding customized, contact lenses in a variety of styles, including soft lenses, RPG lenses, scleral lenses, presbyopic lenses, and other specialty lenses to support your vision needs.

Bausch + Lomb

Bausch + Lomb is one of the best-known and most respected American 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.

CooperVision

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. Designed in the USA.

Valley Contax

Valley Contax welcomes you to the future of custom contact lenses. From scleral and multi-focal lenses, to post surgery lenses, they’ve designed a wide range of contact lenses with your needs and comfort in mind. Try Valley Contax today, and discover how stable and functional your contacts could be.