Ron Rajecki

When it comes to fitting patients with progressive addition lenses (PALs), selecting patients who are good candidates in the first place may be the most important part of the process. Jenean Carlton, BA, ABOC, NCLC, offers some pointers for PAL success.

Co-management of retinal patients can be as simple as educating them about what to expect when you refer them for an intravitreal injection of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor.

The current system of eyeglass lens manufacturing, in which semi-finished "blanks" are delivered and finished in on-site laboratories, will give way to a system in which individually designed lenses are crafted for each patient.

Emotions play a key role in successfully marketing your practice.

Diplopic patients can be enormous consumers of time in a busy practice.

Clinically friendly technology for the evaluation of the tear film will play an increasing role in helping optometrists diagnose and treat dry eye disease.

The main secret to being a successful multifocal contact lens fitter is communication.

Knowing how to avoid upsetting a client, and knowing how to properly handle an individual who feels wronged, can help you avoid customer service mistakes in the future, build a more loyal customer base, and actually increase sales and profits.

Manage the patient's environment, manage the patient systemically, manage inflammation first, and communicate effectively with patients may be considered the new "rule"book for ocular surface disease management.

A number of topical medications commonly prescribed by optometrists may place the fetus at risk when the patient is pregnant or may be passed on to the infant when the mother is nursing.

Many optometrists recommend or prescribe fish oil supplements to their patients with dry eye, but not many realize that there have never been any randomized, controlled trials conducted to establish that fatty acids such as the omega 3s found in fish oil work to relieve symptoms of dry eye.

An increasing number of new technologies have become available to measure and monitor intraocular pressure over the past decade, and more are on the horizon.

There are a number of resources available to help your low vision patients more easily use computers.

A three-dimensional simultaneous stereoscopic retinal camera that allows stereo images to be taken in one shot, offers an automatic mosaic merge function, and provides a full 45-degree field angle in two-dimensional mode has been introduced by Kowa Optimed Inc.

Microbial keratitis that arises from contact lens wear can be a delicate subject.

Have you ever asked a colleague for a contact lens fitting tip?

Add this pair of items to the list of bad matches: laptop computers and patients' medical information.

Piggyback contact lenses are an effective and underutilized modality that has gotten an undeserved "bad rap" as an option for keratoconus patients.

An age-adjusted retinal nerve fiber layer thickness normative database for a proprietary ocular coherence tomography device gives clinicians a tool for assessing glaucoma risk from a patient's first visit.

A multi-purpose solution for disinfecting contact lenses, based on a proprietary combination of alexidine dihydrochloride and polyquaternium-1 provided robust disinfection with a variety of soft contact lenses.

If you were to ask 100 people, "Where's a great place to go for a family vacation?" it is a safe bet that the majority of them would reply, "Disney!"