by Optometric Insights | Jul 31, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
I was discussing soft keratoconus lenses with my contact lens fellow and student intern this past week prior to us fitting a patient into a design. Doing so brought us to the discussion of what makes these lenses so unique and complex. Although these are soft lenses,...
by Optometric Insights | Jul 17, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
We all know that contact lens discomfort is the number one cause for patients’ dissatisfaction with their contact lenses. In fact, we know that most of our patients have stopped wearing their lenses by the time that they are in the 40s. We have looked long and hard to...
by Optometric Insights | Jun 27, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
As eyecare providers we often put our patients into glasses or contact lens wearing buckets. Despite my greatest efforts, I still find myself forgetting to discuss contact lenses to my glasses wearing patients or glasses to my contact lens wearing patients. As the...
by Optometric Insights | Jun 26, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
Not to make light of the gruesomeness of the historically inaccurate movie Braveheart, I love the heart-tugging cry for freedom that he makes at the end of the movie. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLCEUpIg8rE) I think patients are screaming with the same intensity...
by Optometric Insights | May 22, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
If you could purposely choose the worst room in the house for contact lens insertion, which room would you select? Chances are, our patients are already putting their lenses in their eyes in this room. Read...
by Optometric Insights | May 8, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
Men, we are disgusting. We are pathetic. One of the worst things about walking into a men’s restroom at the airport, or anywhere for that matter, is seeing what men do, or rather DON’T DO. An exorbitant number of them do not wash their hands. This is disgusting,...
