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April 2008 |
Features
Treating Allergies in Contact Lens Wearers
By: Tracy Bildstein, OD, MS
Understanding allergy causes and symptoms can help you keep patients wearing their lenses
Soft Toric Contact Lens Fitting Pearls
By: Long D. Tran, OD, FAAO
These tried-and-true steps will help improve success with soft toric contact lens fitting
Eccentricity Changes in GP Lens Design
By: Kelly Indovina, OD; Roxanna T. Potter, OD, FAAO
Knowing how eccentricity affects GP lens design can help improve your GP fitting success
A New Option for Fitting Post-Surgical Corneas
By: Michael D. DePaolis, O.D.
A new reverse curve hybrid lens offers practitioners another option for successfully fitting irregular corneas
Departments
Editor’s Perspective
By: Carla J. Mack, O.D., M.B.A., F.A.A.O.
Referring Patients: It All Comes Back to Value
Prescribing for Astigmatism
By: John Mark Jackson, OD, MS, FAAO
Revisiting GP Front-Surface Torics
GP Insights
By: Edward S. Bennett, OD, MSEd; Bret Davis, OD; S. Barry Eiden, OD; Kim Layfield, OD; Michael J. Lipson, OD; Julie Ott DeKinder, O.D.
GP Lenses and Young Patients in 2008, Part 2
Contact Lens Materials
By: William J Benjamin, OD, MS, PhD
Oxygen Permeability and Transmissibility, Part 2
Dry Eye Dx and Tx
By: Ann Laurenzi-Jones, OD, FAAO
Scleral Contact Lenses and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
Contact Lens Care
By: Susan J. Gromacki, O.D., M.S., F.A.A.O.
A New Method for Cleaning Soft Contact Lenses
Cultivating Compliance
By: Timothy B. Edrington, OD, MS; Dawn Lam, MSc, OD
The Dirt on Hand Washing
The Contact Lens Exam
By: Loretta B. Szczotka-Flynn, OD, PhD, MS, FAAO
Culturing Contact Lenses for Presumed Microbial Keratitis
The Business of Contact Lenses
By: Gary Gerber, OD
Contact Lens Options for Senior Citizens
Coding Strategies
By: Steven M. Newman, O.D., C.N.S.
Contracts, Contracts, Contracts: They're What Matters Most
Pediatric and Teen CL Care
By: Marjorie J. Rah, OD, PhD; Jeffrey J. Walline, OD, PhD, FAAO
Relating Patient Lifestyle to Contact Lens Needs
Treatment Plan
By: William L. Miller, OD, Ph.D., FAAO
Managing LASIK-Induced Epithelial Ingrowth
Readers’ Forum
By: Kirk L. Smick, O.D.
Solution Recalls: Opportunity in Adversity
Readers’ Forum
By: Antonio Calossi, DIP OPTOM IT, FAILAC, FBCLA; Alessandro Fossetti , OD; Luigi Lupelli, DIP OPTOM IT, FIACLE, FAILAC; Fabrizio Zeri, DIP OPTOM IT, BSC (PSYCHOL), FIACLE
Initial Comfort With Silicone Hydrogels of Higher Modulus
Product Spectrum
New Silicone Hydrogel Toric Option
Contact Lens Case Reports
By: Patrick J. Caroline, FAAO; Mark P. André, FAAO
Intacs and Keratoconus