by Optometric Insights | Apr 16, 2017 | Contact Lens Today
As clinicians, we want to help the people who need our help. As business people, we want to help the least number of people we can while getting the most amount of money. Is this a conflict? Most practitioners have a system in place to recall all of the patients they...
by Optometric Insights | Apr 4, 2017 | Clinical Insights, Publications
What happens when a patient presents with apparent complications secondary to contact lens abuse or noncompliance, but evidence indicates that the patient properly cares for their contact lenses? In this installment of Clinical Insights, Mile Brujic, OD, and David...
by Optometric Insights | Apr 2, 2017 | Contact Lens Today
We all know those patients who just aren’t happy. The “my vision is so crisp in my glasses but no one can get my contact lens vision as good as it is with glasses” patients. The “needy patients” who should stop complaining; they see 20/20 with their contact lenses,...
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...
