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Prescription Contact Lenses
Prescription Contact lenses have become so refined that they can now correct nearly every condition that eyeglasses correct, and they can even perform a corrective proceedure similar to Lasik wherein you wear the prescription contact lenses while you sleep and take them off during the waking hours. In conditions such as keratoconus (an irregular bulging of the cornea), antimetropia (one eye farsighted and the other eye nearsighted), anisometropia (a large difference in the prescriptions of the two eyes), aphakia (cataract removal) or any extremely high prescription is best treated with prescription contact lenses.
A contact lens prescription should contain various components to be complete such as power, thickness, base curve, diameter, color, type, brand, and manufacturer. It should also contain the examination date and the expiration date of the prescription. Also the wearing time before removing for cleaning and disinfecting should be indicated as well as when the prescription contact lenses should be discarded, and finally the doctor's signature. Usually the contact lens prescription only contains the bare essentials which are the power, base curve, brand and the doctors signature, and in most cases this is adequate.
Only a licensed Optometrist (OD) or Ophthalmologist (MD) can legally write a contact lens prescription. The Optometrist normally has more training in vision analysis, and the Ophthalmologist has more training in diagnosing and treating eye injuries and diseases especially as relates to prescription contact lenses although each does both. Most of the prescription contact lenses are currently being prescribed and sold by Optometrist, many are sold by Opticians who can't treat or prescribe, and the Opthalmologist treats the more serious eye conditions.