From dry eye to GLP-1s, this year's conference brought a variety of insights from key experts in optometry.
|Videos|August 29, 2019
Tips for fitting contact lens patients
Author(s)Lori J. Bende, OD
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Dr. Bende offers ODs suggestions to increase the number of contact lens wearers in their practices by sharing what has worked in her practice.
The views expressed here belong to the author. They do not necessarily represent the views of Optometry Times or MJH Life Sciences.
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