by Optometric Insights | Jun 4, 2017 | Contact Lens Today
When I was doing my training in contact lenses, I was taught that cylindrical corneas need toric GPs to stabilize them. As I have traveled the world discussing contact lenses, I have asked practitioners far and wide whether they agree with this statement. I have also...
by Optometric Insights | May 14, 2017 | Contact Lens Today
I saw a patient yesterday whom I have been seeing for years. I took him from misery to happiness several years ago with the introduction of specialty lenses for his keratoconus. Since then, he has had fantastic vision and fantastic comfort. He is a top-level executive...
by Optometric Insights | Apr 30, 2017 | Contact Lens Today
When we hear the word orthokeratology, most of us think about myopia control. As an industry, we have done a great job of sharing how great orthokeratology is for myopia control—of course, there is certainly more work to be done. However, there is another large group...
by Optometric Insights | Apr 16, 2017 | Contact Lens Today
As clinicians, we want to help the people who need our help. As business people, we want to help the least number of people we can while getting the most amount of money. Is this a conflict? Most practitioners have a system in place to recall all of the patients they...
by Optometric Insights | Apr 2, 2017 | Contact Lens Today
We all know those patients who just aren’t happy. The “my vision is so crisp in my glasses but no one can get my contact lens vision as good as it is with glasses” patients. The “needy patients” who should stop complaining; they see 20/20 with their contact lenses,...
by Optometric Insights | Mar 19, 2017 | Contact Lens Today
I naturally tend to find a solution to a problem and stick to that solution. It is our tendency as human beings to have buckets to which we regularly go. Bucket 1: These are my treatments for dry eye. Bucket 2: These are my treatments for spherical patients. Bucket 3:...
