Dry Eye and Contact Lenses
the tear film
Dry eye evaluations are forty minutes and $90. A contact lens fitting, including two follow-ups, is $110. Dr. Priya Nair leads both, from the tear film to the lens you take home.
Tear film
surface and lids
The tear film is the surface you look through. When it breaks up quickly, the world can be sharp for a moment and then smear, especially in a warm office or at a bright screen. We time that break-up. We do not ask you to rank the burn and then guess. The dry eye evaluation is forty minutes and $90, with Dr. Priya Nair.
The visit includes a history of when the discomfort arrives, a look at the lids and the surface at the slit lamp, and tear film imaging when it will change the plan. Burning by evening, contact lenses that are fine at breakfast and poor at dinner, and a reflex to close the eyes at the laptop are typical reasons to book this visit. If you also need a full refraction, we schedule the comprehensive exam, sixty minutes and $120, rather than pretend it fits inside forty minutes.
The photograph of contact-lens teaching on this page is the practical part of a fitting: a lens, a patient, and enough time to learn the hands. The evaluation itself may stop at the surface, with no lens at all.
Lid care
lid care
Lid care is a routine we teach in the room. We show you how to warm the lids, how long the warmth stays, and how to clean along the lash line. A warm compress in the treatment chair is sometimes the first time the feeling is specific: a sore surface, or a lid that is simply not flowing as it should. You leave able to repeat the routine on a weekday morning.
We teach what we have looked at. If the surface is inflamed in a way that belongs with your physician, we say so and we write it down. The compress is part of lid care for the finding we made. It is not a substitute for a refraction, and it is not a substitute for medical care that sits outside this clinic.
D., the engineer in the account below, started here. His compress photograph is the treatment chair in daylight, mask on, the visit still quiet. The routine only mattered because the tear film finding was already on the record.
Daily lenses and two follow-ups
fitting and follow-ups
Insertion and removal,
taught in the room.
Some eyes do better in a lens that is thrown away at the end of the day. Daily lenses are the option we use when a longer-wear lens is drying out by evening, or when solution and the case have become part of the irritation. Dr. Priya Nair does the fitting. Samuel Achebe does not fit lenses; he runs imaging when imaging is required.
The contact lens fitting is $110 and includes two follow-ups. The first visit is the fit: lens type, the way it moves, the vision through it, and teaching you to put it in and take it out. The two follow-ups exist so we see the eye after real days of wear. Those two visits are inside the $110. A different return, the general follow-up check within six months, is twenty minutes and $40, and it is a separate fee when it is not one of the included two.
If you already wear lenses, bring them, the boxes, and the solution you use. We need the names. If you would rather wear glasses for part of the day, frames start at $160 and are quoted with lenses after the prescription is known.
week 0, the compress chair
week 8, evening, no burn
D., age 31, software engineer
one account
D. is 31 and works as a software engineer. His eyes burned, and his contact lenses were uncomfortable by evening. We measured a short tear break-up time. The plan was a lid care routine, a move to daily lenses, and 20-20-20 breaks through the workday. At eight weeks he was comfortable through the workday.
The photographs beside this account are the two ends of that plan. One is a man in his thirties with a warm compress in the bright treatment chair. The other is a man of that age at a desk in the evening, eyes comfortable, a glass of water, a laptop. The eight-week picture is the review, not a promise about the eighth week for anyone else.
This is an individual account. Results differ. Three things changed at once: the lids, the lens, and the breaks. We will not point at one of them and call it the reason. We will look at your tear film, your lenses, and your day, and we will write a plan that belongs to those findings.
Fees for this work
fees for this work
Two fees live on this page. The dry eye evaluation is forty minutes and $90. The contact lens fitting is $110 and includes two follow-ups, so those return visits are not billed again. A follow-up check within six months that is outside those included visits is twenty minutes and $40.
Frames, when glasses are the better part-day answer, start at $160. Lenses are quoted after we know the prescription. Prices are in US dollars and they are the same in every language.
Book on +1 555 0142 208 or at hello@hitomivision.example. Ask for Dr. Priya Nair, and say whether you want the dry eye evaluation, the contact lens fitting, or both scheduled in the right order. Hours are Monday to Friday 10:00–19:00 and Saturday 9:00–16:00. Sunday and public holidays are closed. Bring the lenses you actually wear, including the pair that fails after lunch.
Mon–Fri 10:00–19:00 · Sat 9:00–16:00 · Sun and public holidays closed