Long Distance

We regularly have patients that come a significant distance to be fit.  It is important if you do so, to understand the process and what to expect.  First, it is critical that we get very clean measurements on the day of your initial visit.  You should be out of any lenses made of gas permeable materials for a month prior to your visit.  It is too your advantage to be out of soft contacts for one week.  Are these rules set  in stone?  No, but you invite disappointment if you don't follow them.

At the initial visit, we will make all the measurements necessary to design and manufacture the ortho-k retainer lenses.  You can expect to return for a dispense visit in approximately three days when we receive the lenses.  A one week follow-up is usually planned.  At that visit, if your case is straightforward, you will be released.  More and more however, I am seeing patients who travel a long ways to see us precisely because they are NOT straightforward cases.  In those cases where the initial lenses may not have performed to expectations, we will usually have the new lenses shipped to you where you live, with another followup scheduled to monitor the design changes.