Now that the standard eye exam has been completed, your eye doctor will need additional information before you can be fitted for contact lenses. You may be asked general questions about your lifestyle and preferences regarding contact lenses, such as whether you might want to change your eye color with color contact lenses or if you're interested in options such as daily disposables or overnight wear. Your eye doctor may also discuss the option of rigid gas permeable (RGP or GP) contact lenses, although most people today are fitted with soft lenses.

Your eye doctor may question you about how you might want to correct vision problems related to aging. At about age 40 or maybe older, you will develop a condition known as presbyopia that decreases your ability to see clearly at all distances. To correct presbyopia, your eye doctor may offer you the choice of multifocal or bifocal contact lenses or monovision, in which one contact lens corrects for near vision and the other contact lens corrects for distance vision.

Eye exams for existing contact lens-wearers will include additional testing to ensure that the lenses worn are appropriate for optimal vision, comfort, and eye health. The contact lens prescription, eye-teaming and focusing, and internal and external eye health are also evaluated.  Even if you are a well established contact lens patient, you will still need this part of the exam in addition to your comprehensive examination. 

Watch the insertion and removal of soft contact lens video below

For those of you wearing gas permeable (rigid) lenses watch the video below.