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...
by Optometric Insights | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog, Contact Lens Spectrum, Insightful Reads, Latest READS
If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a million times: “That place is selling contact lenses for about what I pay for them. How am I ever going to compete?” If you live in an area in which patients have access to a “big box store” (i.e., about 98% of America) or your...
by Optometric Insights | May 31, 2020 | Blog, Contact Lens Spectrum, Insightful Reads, Latest READS, Read to Lead
I have written before about fitting sets. Aren’t they amazing? My grandfather fit lenses, but he had to do it very differently from what we do today. Many of you may recall the days when lenses were annual and when fitting sets didn’t exist. Now, like many things in...
