If you’ve been diagnosed with keratoconus, you’re not alone and you don’t have to let it continue blurring your world. Keratoconus is a progressive condition which causes the cornea to thin and bulge into a cone shape, leading to distorted or blurred vision. Fortunately, at Vision Care Clinic, we offer advanced treatment options and highly specialised keratoconus contact lenses to help restore visual clarity and confidence.

Understanding Keratoconus

Keratoconus affects the shape and strength of the cornea, the transparent front layer of the eye responsible for focusing light. As the cornea becomes irregular, traditional glasses or soft contact lenses often fail to correct vision properly. This is where keratoconus contact lenses can help: designed specifically to provide sharper vision and better comfort for patients with irregular corneal shapes.

Keratoconus Contact Lenses

At Vision Care Clinic, we are pleased to offer custom contact lenses for keratoconus, a highly effective solution for patients seeking comfort and visual precision. These lenses, known as mini scleral lenses, are tailored to fit each patient’s unique corneal shape, ensuring stability, optimal vision, and long-term comfort.

Unlike standard lenses, keratoconus contact lenses create a smooth optical surface by vaulting over the cone-shaped cornea, allowing light to focus correctly on the retina. The result is significantly improved vision quality, often clearer and more stable than achieved with glasses or standard contacts.

Our experienced optometrists at Vision Care Clinic use advanced corneal imaging to design and fit your lenses with exceptional accuracy. Whether you’re newly diagnosed or have struggled for a while, custom keratoconus contact lenses can make a remarkable difference to your daily life.

Advanced Keratoconus Treatments: Cross-Linking and CAIRS

While keratoconus contact lenses correct vision, they do not stop the condition from progressing. That’s why Vision Care Clinic offers advanced medical treatments to stabilise the cornea, preserving vision long-term or even regularising corneas to improve the quality of vision, without aids.

One technique is corneal cross-linking, a minimally invasive procedure that strengthens the corneal tissue by using ultraviolet light and riboflavin drops. This treatment helps halt the progression of keratoconus, reducing the likelihood of further corneal distortion.

For suitable patients, our local consultants also perform the CAIRS procedure (Corneal Allogenic Intrastromal Ring Segment), a modern alternative to synthetic corneal implants. CAIRS uses natural donor tissue to reshape and support the cornea, improving vision quality and reducing irregularity while maintaining excellent biocompatibility. 

Alternatively, customised laser treatment can help some individuals by uniquely reshaping the front surface of the eye.

By combining innovative treatments like cross-linking, laser and CAIRS with precision-fitted keratoconus contact lenses, Vision Care Clinic provides comprehensive, long-term solutions for patients at every stage of keratoconus.

Why Choose Vision Care Clinic?

As a trusted private eye clinic in Bristol, our clinic brings together world-class technology, leading specialists, and a commitment to personalised care. Our team takes time to understand your lifestyle, visual needs, and treatment goals, ensuring that your keratoconus contact lenses and clinical care deliver the best possible results. If you’re living with keratoconus, don’t let distorted vision hold you back. At Vision Care Clinic, our expert team offers tailored keratoconus contact lenses, advanced cross-linking, customised laser surgery and the innovative CAIRS procedure to help you see clearly again. Book your consultation today and discover how personalised eye care can transform your sight.