OVITZ-Added Lenses

Higher Order Aberrations (HOAs) occur when there are microscopic imperfections in the eye that affect how light travels through the eye at particular locations and from particular angles.

Regardless of the cause of your HOAs, if you have been frustrated with eye doctors telling you that your vision is as good as it’s going to get, there’s a very good chance that they are not yet familiar with HOAs or OVITZ HOA technology.

Since HOAs are very small and exist at specific locations in the eye, any correction has to happen on the corresponding position on a contact lens. Unfortunately, most conventional soft and hard contact lenses move or rotate on the eye, making them not ideal for correcting HOAs.

But an increasingly popular kind of lens called a scleral lens can be designed to remain stable on the eye because they rest on the white part of the eye (called the “sclera”). That’s why we recommend scleral lenses as the preferred type of lens for adding OVITZ HOA Optics.

OVITZ-Added lenses feature OVITZ HOA optics, which are typically added to scleral lenses, to compensate for HOA imperfections in the eye.

OVITZ HOA Optics correct the distorted path of light that the HOAs cause, much like noise canceling headphones compensate for (and greatly reduce) unwanted sounds from reaching your ears. The result is that the halos, glare, flares, starbursts, double vision, ghosting, and blur and other issues that result from HOAs are greatly reduced.

Many eye doctors do a great job of prescribing and designing stable scleral lenses for their patients, but just one extra step — a scan with our “aberrometer” — can result in the lenses becoming “OVITZ-Added.”

An aberrometer is an instrument that measures aberrations (aka Higher Order Aberrations) in the path of light as it enters the eye. Your eye doctor, using the state-of-the-art OVITZ xwave aberrometer, can more precisely detect, locate and measure HOA imperfections.

OVITZ network doctors are among the very best in designing scleral Lenses that have exceptional stability.

The lens design and xwave aberrometry data goes directly to OVITZ’s optical engineers and vision scientists. They design the optics for your custom lenses based on OVITZ’s AI-powered system and the world’s largest library of proven HOA designs. Your HOA design is then sent to the contact lens laboratory that your OVITZ-Authorized Doctor selects which then adds your custom OVITZ HOA Optics directly to a new lens.

These OVITZ-Added lenses can greatly reduce or eliminate the halos, glare, flares, starbursts, double vision, ghosting, and blur and other issues that you may be experiencing, but there are also many more reasons to insist on OVITZ-Added Lenses.

The OVITZ system measures and corrects the full range of aberrations in your eye whether they come from the front of the cornea, the back of the cornea, the lens, or another part of the eye. Unlike other passive HOA correction solutions that rely on a guesswork approach by making broad changes to the lens shape (e.g. eccentricity) in an attempt to reduce glare and halos (often risking double vision) OVITZ takes a more direct, data-driven approach by precisely measuring and correcting those specific HOAs.

If your eye doctor does not currently offer OVITZ Added lenses, ask for a referral to an OVITZ-Authorized Doctor or find an OVITZ-Authorized Doctor here.