Scleral Lenses for Severe Dry Eye — A reservoir of moisture your eye wears all day

At Eyecare Center of Orange County, Dr. Alexander Bonakdar has cared for patients for more than three decades. Trained at Bascom Palmer, board certified, and trusted by more than ten thousand Orange County patients since nineteen ninety one.

In severe dry eye, drops can simply be outrun. When the surface of the eye breaks down faster than drops can rescue it, what the eye needs is constant protection, not another schedule.

A scleral lens does something no drop can. It vaults over the cornea and holds a bath of sterile fluid against the surface all day, a liquid bandage the eye wears from morning to night.

This is the tool for the hardest cases. Autoimmune dry eye, graft versus host disease, surfaces damaged by surgery or incomplete blinking, the patients who have failed everything else and are told to live with it.

Comfort is the surprise. The lens touches only the white of the eye, never the raw cornea, and many severe dry eye patients describe their first day in scleral lenses as the first comfortable day in years.

If your dry eye is severe and nothing has held, ask us about scleral lenses. For the right surface, a worn reservoir of moisture changes the day entirely.