Precision Vision Institute

After seeing several eye care providers and being unsuccessful at finding glasses to relieve nighttime glare symptoms, this patient came to see us for some alternate solutions.

During his visit, we conducted diagnostic testing with our Pentacam topographer, which revealed microscopic irregularities on his corneas.

These irregularities cause light to scatter as soon as it passes through the cornea, explaining the glare issues he was experiencing. While glasses alleviate a percentage of the glare, they do not provide 100% relief.

We fitted this patient with a rigid contact lens that masked all corneal irregularities, thus eliminating all glare symptoms.

The patient already had 20/20 vision, but he went from seeing starbursts and halos when looking at lights to seeing one single point of light. He was extremely thankful and relieved to drive comfortably again at night!

📷 (1/2) - What a rigid contact lens looks like on the eye. The two dots indicate this is the left lens.

📷 (2/2) - A microscopic cross-section that shows the contact lens (thin black band), contact lens solution (neon green band) and the patient’s cornea (forest green band)

Pictures were captured with an iPad Pro.

Hello everyone! I am entirely overdue for an intro, so here it is!

My name is Lay Nim, I’m a board certified optometrist and I specialize in all things related to the cornea and contact lenses. I’m also the owner of Precision Vision Institute, my practice that I started cold in July of 2020. Yes, smack dab in the middle of a pandemic! (And yes, “THE” year of all years to open an optometry practice, because…20/20 🤪)

After a wild 18 months of this roller coaster ride, and finally getting the hang of things. I’m excited to start sharing stories of all the patients I’ve had the opportunity to help while running a contact lens focused optometry practice.

Follow along if you’d like to learn more about the cornea and contact lenses and see why I’m grateful to be doing what I do everyday!

-Lay Nim, OD.