by Optometric Insights | Oct 30, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
When was the last time that you sat down with your team and reviewed all the contact lens options that you prescribe in the office? When did you last review solutions, cases, and replacement schedules? Read...
by Optometric Insights | Oct 16, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
I want to be better. I am not the best, but think I am pretty good, but then someone comes along and makes me realize how far I need to go. I like looking back at how far I have come, but then realize that the more I know, the more I learn I need to know, and the...
by Optometric Insights | Oct 2, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
The research is in and we have concluded that there is something better. I just received in my office a pile of boxes that add up to the size of a new refrigerator. I checked with my contact lens rep and she said that they wanted to switch out my single use toric...
by Optometric Insights | Sep 18, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
As health care practitioners, we are often put in a position where we need to balance the reality of what our patients actually do and what is best for our patients’ health. Swimming in contact lenses is a classic example of this. In the 2016 Olympics, where we...
by Optometric Insights | Aug 14, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
When we talk to our patients about contact lenses (or don’t talk to them) what are we assuming and what is important? Take 100 providers and we will probably all have different things that are important: from price, to replacement, to astigmatism for low cyl, to...
by Optometric Insights | Jul 31, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
Today I’m doing things I never thought possible. I am fitting scleral contact lenses based more on what technology is telling me more than what my own eye is seeing. I would have never believed it possible when I started fitting scleral lenses 12 years ago. At this...
