A Hyperope from Berkeley with Curved Corneas
by Optometric Insights | Oct 6, 2018 | Clinical Insights, Contact Lens Spectrum, Contact Lens Today
The astigmatic hyperope has been a challenge for many of us in our career. I reckon that every contact lens practitioner can think of at least one hyperope that they have walked through the CL fitting process with and can relate to the struggles. We then started...
Daily Disposable Contact Lenses
by Optometric Insights | Oct 6, 2018 | Clinical Insights, Contact Lens Spectrum, Contact Lens Today
Following the introduction of the first disposable soft contact lens in the late 1980s, most all of the contact lens companies began making lenses that were disposable—a move away from conventional yearly based lenses. Then in the mid-1990s daily disposable lenses...
A Little Soft Contact Lens History
by Optometric Insights | Oct 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
The introduction of soft contact lenses into the worldwide market was certainly a major win for spectacle wearers, but the process and concepts that it took to pull it off were substantial. Most people consider Otto Wichterle the father of soft contact lenses. In the...
A Little History Rigid Gas Permeable Contact Lenses
by Optometric Insights | Oct 6, 2018 | Clinical Insights, Contact Lens Spectrum, Contact Lens Today
With all the discussion and activity in scleral lenses these last few years, we cannot forget about their corneal counterparts today made from rigid gas permeable (GP) materials. In fact, corneal lenses originated from scleral lenses. In the 1940s …. READ...
