by Optometric Insights | Mar 21, 2017 | Clinical Insights, Publications
David Kading, OD, explores how optometrists can determine when dry eye symptoms become dry eye disease. He outlines what physicians should evaluate prior to a diagnosis to understand this chronic, progressive condition. Dr. Kading stresses that patients must be...
by Optometric Insights | Mar 19, 2017 | Contact Lens Today
I naturally tend to find a solution to a problem and stick to that solution. It is our tendency as human beings to have buckets to which we regularly go. Bucket 1: These are my treatments for dry eye. Bucket 2: These are my treatments for spherical patients. Bucket 3:...
by Optometric Insights | Mar 5, 2017 | Contact Lens Today
How are you addressing your patients who have both astigmatism and presbyopia? For me, these patients are a big challenge. The industry has great options available to us, but the simplicity to prescribe a standard sphere, toric, or multifocal lens is confounded to a...
by Optometric Insights | Mar 1, 2017 | Contact Lens Spectrum, Optometry Times, Review of Cornea and Contact Lens, Review of Optometry
We live in the Age of Innovation. The eyecare profession is changing and innovating at a rate never before seen. We are learning about diseases, diagnostic measures, and treatment methods in ways that we would never have thought possible 10 years ago. Who would have...
by Optometric Insights | Feb 19, 2017 | Contact Lens Today
I see them everyday. Honestly, I wish I didn’t. I think to myself, if only I had seen you a year ago or two ago, we could have made a difference. But now, is it worth it? I guess so, a little is better than nothing. You are probably wondering what I’m talking...