Scott Schachter, OD

Eye physicals should be full-scope

There is treatment hope for neurotrophic keratitis, a rare disease affecting the cornea.

Dry eye plagues many patients who come into optometry practices, but some ODs struggle to provide the proper treatment. Scott Schachter, OD, gives his recommendations to help ODs begin to provide dry eye services at their practice.

Many patients present with dry eye, and some ODs aren’t sure how to jump into the game. Scott Schachter, OD, offers his tips on expanding or incorporating dry eye services into your practice.

Meibomian gland imaging clearly has a role, yet most practitioners aren’t looking at meibomian glands at all.

Dr. Scott Schachter discusses four updates to demodex blepharitis, from diagnosis to management

Dr. Scott Schachter offers advice on how to better manage non-symptomatic dry eye patients and encourage them to comply with your treatment plan

Dr. Scott Schachter shares four factors that are affecting contact lens dropout in both a positive and negative way

There are lots of parameters to choose from when looking for dry eye disease.

I get to spend a lot of time in OD practices talking about dry eye disease (DED). Many of these practices already do a lot for their dry eye patients, but many seem to fall into one camp or the other.

In my practice, we screen patients age 25 and over. This is a relatively arbitrary number, but I wanted to skew younger. We often think of dry eye disease as being an older person’s disease. There are a number of reasons why I decided to look at younger patients.