by Optometric Insights | Oct 6, 2018 | Clinical Insights, Contact Lens Spectrum, Contact Lens Today
Dry eye comes in many different forms and often sneaks in the door. For many, it starts as a slight irritant that decreases comfortable lens wearing time. In many cases, the disease progresses to a serious problem that affects our patients’ quality of life. As our...
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...
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...
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...
by Optometric Insights | Oct 4, 2018 | Clinical Insights / Advanced Ocular Care, Contact Lens Spectrum, Contact Lens Today
Initially, there is greater lens awareness with GP lenses than with traditional soft contact lenses. However, GP lenses provide remarkable uncompromised vision. Here are four proven strategies that allow GP lens wearers to optimize their contact lens comfort. READ...
by Optometric Insights | Sep 25, 2018 | Clinical Insights / Advanced Ocular Care, Contact Lens Spectrum
When eyecare practitioners (ECPs) think about fitting toric lenses on their patients, they each have a threshold for how high of a cylinder correction a patient needs before going to a toric lens. Whether they select a toric lens and there is lens rotation or a lens...
