March 19th 2024
Shifting the treatment paradigm can lead to less pain, inflammation
18th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
May 4, 2024
Register Now!
(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Paradigm Shifts in Presbyopia – Understanding Advances in Topical Treatment Innovations
View More
(CME Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
View More
2nd Annual IKA Keratoconus Symposium: Front to Back and Everything in Between
May 18-19, 2024
Register Now!
(COPE Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
View More
(COPE Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
View More
Neurotrophic Keratitis Management: How Early Intervention Can Make a Difference
View More
(CME Credit) Virtual Case Studies™ in Cataract Surgery: Selecting Surgical Techniques and Preventing Intra-Operative Complications
View More
(CME Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
View More
1st Annual IKA Keratoconus Symposium: Front to Back and Everything In Between
View More
17th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
View More
(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Pearls in Co-managing Glaucoma – Multidisciplinary Management in a Multitude of Treatment Options
View More
(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
View More
(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Advances in Geographic Atrophy – Optimizing Diagnosis, Monitoring Progression, and Increasing Communication with Transformative Treatment on the Horizon
View More
Thyroid Eye Disease: The Masquerading Eye Disorder—A Guide to Collaborative Care and Accurate Diagnosis
View More
(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Saving Sight—The Expanding Role of the Optometrist in Retinal Disease Care
View More
(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Saving Sight—The Expanding Role of the Optometrist in Retinal Disease Care
View More
(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Advances in Geographic Atrophy – Optimizing Diagnosis, Monitoring Progression, and Increasing Communication with Transformative Treatment on the Horizon
View More
Cases & Conversations™: Addressing Challenges In The Diagnosis And Management Of Neurotrophic Keratitis
View More
(CME Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Pearls in Co-managing Glaucoma – Multidisciplinary Management in a Multitude of Treatment Options
View More
(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
View More
Addressing Healthcare Inequities™ in Glaucoma Management – Understanding Challenges in Segmented Patient Populations (CME Track)
View More
Medical Crossfire®: Considerations for the Use of Biosimilars in Retinal Disease - Are You Prepared for a New Paradigm? (CME Credit)
View More
Vance Thompson Vision - Fargo
September 20, 2024
Register Now!
Medical Crossfire®: Considerations for the Use of Biosimilars in Retinal Disease - Are You Prepared for a New Paradigm? (COPE Credit)
View More
EyeCon 2024
September 27-28, 2024
Register Now!
Vance Thompson Vision - Montana
October 18, 2024
Register Now!
Vance Thompson Vision - Omaha
October 25, 2024
Register Now!
(CME) Community Practice Connections™: A Closer Look at Neurotrophic Keratitis—Ensuring Timely Diagnosis and Taking Early Action
View More
Community Practice Connections™: Mastering the Multidisciplinary Management of Glaucoma—Understanding Advances in the Spectrum of Treatment Innovation (COPE Credit)
View More
1-800 Contacts ramps up legislative fights
May 25th 20161-800 Contacts is ramping up its fight against organized optometry at the state and federal levels over legislation that would change important aspects of contact lens prescriptions and dispensing, such as longer expiration dates, elimination of contact lens brand on the Rx, and enacting a contact lens patient bill of rights.
7 techniques to boost your annual supply sales
May 16th 2016Let’s talk about an elephant in the room. Some practices are incredibly effective at selling annual supplies of contact lenses, and some practices are not. Just like daily disposables, low sales numbers are blamed on “the demographics of my practice.”
Industry panel talks state of contact lens industry
April 14th 2016Contact lens manufacturer representatives discussed the state of the contact lens industry, including consumer education, doctor-patient communication, and legislative battles. Scot Morris, OD, FAAO, posed questions during the Global Contact Lens Forum at Vision Expo East.
JJVC discontinues UPP, looks to support contact lens advocacy
April 13th 2016Johnson & Johnson Vision Care (JJVC) has discontinued its unilateral pricing policy (UPP) in an effort to focus the company’s resources on strengthening the doctor-patient relationship and advocating against contact lens deregulation. In UPP’s place, JJVC will be launching a new patient rewards program. This change is effective April 13, 2016.
How to keep athletes’ eyes healthy in contact lenses
March 11th 2016As a die-hard University of Kentucky basketball fan, I have watched many, many basketball games throughout my life. During these basketball games, I have cringed at a few of my favorite players because I have seen some of the players drop their contact lenses on the court, pick them up, put them in their mouths, and then put them right back in their eyes!
What is the best contact lens for your patient?
February 17th 2016We have been the fortunate recipients of innovative technologies in contact lenses that were only concepts a mere decade ago. As a profession, we transitioned most of our two-week and monthly disposable contact lens wearers who were in traditional hydrogel materials into silicone hydrogel materials.
Why you are your biggest obstacle to success
February 11th 2016When we take a step back and think about what happens in our offices-in our exam rooms-we realize what a huge impact we have, dare I say “control,” on the growth of our contact lens practice. Yet so many elements of our everyday operations challenge that control and cause us to forget or push to the side the techniques we know to grow our contact lens business.
B+L acquires Alden Optical, launches new division
January 15th 2016Bausch + Lomb, a Valeant Pharmaceuticals company, has acquired Alden Optical Laboratories. The acquisition is the latest in a series of moves by Bausch + Lomb that sent ripples through the gas permeable subset of the contact lens industry.
Contact lens laboratory files suit against Valeant
January 6th 2016In a recent filing, Dallas-based gas permeable (GP) contact lens laboratory TruForm Optics has taken legal action against Valeant Pharmaceuticals. The class-action complaint aims to stop competitive behavior, obtain damages for past competitive behavior, and to restore competitive market conditions.
Valeant shakes up GP lens market
November 17th 2015Valeant Pharmaceuticals and its subsidiary Bausch + Lomb have come under fire for its recent actions in purchasing competing gas permeable (GP) contact lens manufacturer Paragon Vision Sciences, attempts to purchase independent GP laboratories, price increases, and withdrawal from industry support group Contact Lens Manufacturers Association (CLMA).
How travel affects your patients’ lens care habits
November 12th 2015It is a constant challenge to be able to inspire patients to care meticulously for their lenses when life is easy, but what happens to that care when life gets hard? What happens when their schedules are upside down, and they are on the go? Travel influences how patients wear and care for their lenses-let’s look at the how, why, and most importantly, what we can do about it.
AOA asks FTC to address contact lens retail abuses
November 3rd 2015The American Optometric Association (AOA) has called upon the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to strengthen its Contact Lens Rule to prevent its manipulation by contact lens retailers for their own financial benefits, causing potential harm to patients.
The dangers of contact lenses lie with patients
October 20th 2015In honor of Contact Lens Health Week late this summer, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) published a study titled Contact Lens Wearer Demographics and Risk Behaviors for Contact Lens-Related Eye Infections-United States–2014 which goes through the risks of contact lens wear and the costs associated with eye-related infections.
New option for peroxide lens care case
September 30th 2015According to a recent report form the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there are approximately 40.9 million adult wearers of contact lenses in the U.S.1 Numerous reports suggest that 16 to 31 percent of contact lens wearers discontinue contact lens wear and return to glasses.
Offer contact lens innovations to your patient
August 12th 2015Are we innovating new ideas, products, and systems? If not, what does that hold for the future of our profession? This may not be something that you think much about, but it is the thing which I believe holds the future of optometry in its hands.
5 ways to improve in-office purchasing
July 10th 2015Your patients are conditioned to believe that if they take their Rx and just buy it online, they are going to get the best deal. That may have been a partial truth in the past, but today, you are often times able to offer your patients the best deal.
Fast forward 10 years: How will we treat myopia?
May 31st 2015Liverpool, UK-The British Contact Lens Association meeting features several panel discussion on a theme. Topics included a look into the future for managing myopia and contact lens discomfort. In addition, improve the success of your multifocal contact lens fits with expert suggestions.