by Optometric Insights | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog, Contact Lens Spectrum, Latest READS, Publications
Dear Dr. Kading, I wanted to says thanks for all that you have done for our family over the last 10 years. I cannot believe what we did not know in 2020 when we started seeing you. Back then, little Sam was 5 years old, and Jenny was 9. I won’t say how old Cindy and I...
by Optometric Insights | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog, Contact Lens Spectrum
Desiccating stress is not a new term, but it is a highly underused one. It describes things that cause stress upon the ocular surface. The environmental things that bring about desiccation are abundant: air conditioning, heating units, ceiling fans, being dehydrated,...
by Optometric Insights | Jul 1, 2020 | Blog, Contact Lens Spectrum, Read to Lead
The line of Marx (LOM) is the mucocutaneous junction that separates the anterior keratinized epithelium from the palpebral conjunctiva (Doughty, 2013). Under normal circumstances, the LOM resides posterior to the meibomian glands (MGs) on both the upper and...
by Optometric Insights | Jun 28, 2020 | Blog, Contact Lens Spectrum, Latest READS
Identifying the cause of a patient’s headache can be tricky. The next time that a 46-year-old patient comes in and tells you that he gets a headache after working on the computer all day while wearing progressive addition lenses (PALs), ask him to view your computer...
by Optometric Insights | Jun 14, 2020 | Blog, Contact Lens Spectrum, Latest READS, Read to Lead
How many times do we let those 0.75D to 1.00D astigmats slide? Too often, we use spherical equivalents for these patients; it works, and everyone is satisfied. Did you ever stop and think: I wonder whether these patients would be better if I showed them a correction...
