Contact Lenses

With the release of CDC guidelines on contact lens wear and publication of a peer-reviewed paper on the topic, lead author Lyndon Jones, PhD, FCAHS, FCOptom, FAAO, offers advice to ODs and patients alike about safe contact lens wear. Read the paper from Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, “The COVID-19 pandemic: Important considerations for contact lens practitioners.”

Doctors and staff need to better communicate recommendations to contact lens wearers.

Communication and education are highly correlated with better patient adherence and when ODs spend time connecting with contact lens wearers one-on-one, the degree to which patients follow contact lens recommendations increases. Establishing rapport, asking questions and sharing knowledge with contact lens patients is a great way to guarantee clinical success.

Contact lens experts detail how to help more patients see better and deliver life-altering care.

Warm compress supports healthy functioning of meibomian glands in contact lens wearers.

Convenience, comfort, value, function, and expectations all play a role.

Doctors should not blame themselves but look to better patient education and daily disposability.

There is a lot to learn from the history of LASIK if ODs are willing to unearth it.

Modern optometry can provide advanced outcome support to patients with glaucoma.

Identifying the distinct pathways in myopic and hyperopic defocus signals could lead to new anti-myopia drugs.

Daily disposable MiSight offers new option for parents, children, ODs

A rapid-fire view of 2019’s best innovations in optometry- that stood out the most to ODs.