CLS New Norm: Is Newer Better?

by Optometric Insights | Jun 1, 2015 | Contact Lens Spectrum, Publications

Every day, we get new product updates in our email inboxes, publication posts, at conferences or continuing education events, or from company representatives. New products bring new concepts and new ideas. But in reality, when do new products trump the old, and what...

CLS Materials & Design: Three Mainstream Myths About Multifocal Contact Lenses

by Bee Enriquez | May 1, 2015 | Contact Lens Spectrum, Publications

If I told you that I tried vegetables once and hated them so I never tried them again, you might think I was crazy. And yet, we often form our perceptions of multifocals after just a few tries and a few mild failures. Multifocal lenses always work, we just have to...

CLS New Norm: Is Monovision the New Norm?

by Optometric Insights | Apr 1, 2015 | Contact Lens Spectrum, Publications

For presbyopes looking to focus things better at near, we could prescribe reading glasses over their contact lenses to maintain binocularity. However, patients won’t have the ability to see in the distance when they are wearing their reading glasses, and they must...

CLS New Norm – Is Point-of-Care Testing for Red Eye the New Norm?

by Bee Enriquez | Dec 1, 2014 | Contact Lens Spectrum, Publications

A 26-year-old female who wears contact lenses came in for an emergency appointment. She said that a few days earlier, her right eye started to get red and had been getting worse since then. She had been wearing her contact lenses for the last few days, but on the...

CLS Materials & Design – 3 Steps to Comfort

by Bee Enriquez | Nov 1, 2014 | Contact Lens Spectrum, Publications

As the saying goes: “The more you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know.” With dry eye, this saying seems to be true. The more we understand meibomian gland dysfunction, aqueous deficiency, and inflammatory dry eye, the more we realize the delicate...

Three Steps to Lens Comfort

by Optometric Insights | Nov 1, 2014 | Contact Lens Spectrum, Publications, Review of Cornea and Contact Lens

As the saying goes: “The more you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know.” With dry eye, this saying seems to be true. The more we understand meibomian gland dysfunction, aqueous deficiency, and inflammatory dry eye, the more we realize the delicate...