Daily disposables
Fresh pair every day
- Nothing to clean or store
- Lowest risk of infection
- Good for sport and occasional wear
- Usually the easiest start for new wearers
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A contact lens exam is two things: a full eye exam, plus a fitting. Here is what each part does, what it costs you, and why you cannot skip the first one.
The question we get most
Not on its own, no. And it is worth knowing why before you book.
A contact lens exam is really two appointments in one. First the standard eye exam, which checks your vision and the health of your eyes. Then the fitting, which is about the lens sitting on your eye.
Glasses sit in front of your eye. A contact lens sits on it, all day. That is a medical device on a living surface.
So the fitting measures the curve of your cornea, checks your tear film, and looks at how a trial lens actually moves when you blink.
A glasses prescription cannot tell us any of that. The numbers are different too, because the lens sits at a different distance from your eye.
That second half is why a contact lens exam costs more than a standard one. You are paying for a fitting as well as an exam.
What is included
Both halves, in one visit where we can. Expect to be here a little longer than for a glasses check.
If your eyes are dry, say so early. We would rather pick a different lens than have you stop wearing them. You can read more on dry eye and what helps.
Most people have more options than they expect, including plenty who were told years ago that contacts were not for them.
Fresh pair every day
Cleaned and reused
For reading up close
Worth knowing
A lot of people do not know this, so we will say it plainly.
Under the Federal Trade Commission’s rules, you are entitled to a copy of your contact lens prescription once your fitting is complete. We have to hand it over automatically, at no extra charge.
You do not have to buy your lenses from us. The FTC is clear on that, and so are we.
A contact lens prescription must be valid for at least a year, unless there is a medical reason to make it shorter. The FTC also says the fitting counts as complete once we are willing to sell you lenses.
Buy them here if it is convenient. Buy them online if it is cheaper. Either way, bring the prescription back when it runs out, because a yearly check is about the health of your eyes rather than the sale.
You can read the FTC’s own page on your rights, and our guide to what the numbers on a prescription mean.
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Your optometrist
Owner and lead optometrist
Most people who gave up on contacts were in the wrong lens, not the wrong body. It is usually worth one more try.
I fit contact lenses seven days a week here in Jersey City. Dry eye is one of my two clinical interests, which matters here more than it sounds.
Dryness is the single commonest reason people stop wearing lenses. Tell me early and I can usually work around it. Read the full profile.
The things people usually want to check first.
A standard eye exam checks your vision and the health of your eyes, and gives you a glasses prescription. A contact lens exam includes all of that, then adds the fitting: measuring your cornea, checking your tears, and trying real lenses on your eye. You get two prescriptions out of it, because the numbers for contacts are not the same as the numbers for glasses.
More than a standard exam, because of the fitting. How much more depends on the lens type, and multifocal and toric fittings take longer than a simple daily lens. Call with your plan details and we will tell you what yours will be before you come in. Many vision plans include a contact lens allowance that covers part of it.
No. They are different prescriptions. A contact lens sits directly on your eye, so the power is often slightly different, and the prescription also has to specify a brand, a base curve and a diameter. None of those appear on a glasses prescription. Buying lenses without a valid contact lens prescription is not legal in the US either.
At least a year, under the FTC’s rules, unless your optometrist has a medical reason to make it shorter. When it expires you need a check rather than a whole new fitting, assuming nothing has changed. That yearly visit is about the health of your eyes under the lenses, which is a real thing worth checking.
Quite possibly not. Astigmatism, needing reading glasses, and mildly dry eyes were all reasons to be turned away years ago, and lens design has moved on a lot. It is worth asking again rather than assuming. Come in and we will tell you honestly either way.
Often, yes. There is no fixed age, and it depends far more on whether they can handle the lenses hygienically than on how old they are. Daily disposables are usually the sensible place to start because there is nothing to clean.
No. We give you your prescription once the fitting is complete, at no extra charge, and you can take it anywhere. That is the FTC rule and we have no problem with it.
100 14th Street
Jersey City, NJ 07310
Inside Target Optical, Newport
Two minutes from Newport PATH, with parking on site. We see patients from Newport, Downtown, Journal Square, the Heights and across Hudson County.
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