August

Features

Contact Lenses

An Overview of Optics in Soft Contact Lenses

Understanding how various designs affect vision will help you match patients with the best-suited option for their needs.

Contact Lens Complications: Recognition, Prevention and Management

From mild dry eye to vision-threatening microbial keratitis, here’s how to detect impending trouble, avoid similar issues in other patients and intervene to sidestep a potentially devastating outcome.

Make Specialty Lenses Thrive in Your Practice

It's more than just a matter of obtaining the lenses. Here's a look at the tools and talents you'll need.

My Seven Secrets to Specialty Contact Lens Success

Learn the principles that will allow you to integrate this modality into your practice.

Dry Eye

A Stepwise Approach to Diagnosing Dry Eye Disease

Identifying this condition requires a systematic assessment using multiple techniques.

Myopia

A Checklist for Starting a Myopia Management Practice

Learn how to integrate this specialty into practice, especially through a logistics perspective and in terms of workflow.

Creating Effective Treatment Protocols for Myopia Control

Here, we tackle the questions of who and when to treat and how to modify strategies for better efficacy.

Creative Approaches to Challenging Myopia Management Cases

How to handle four tricky scenarios by relying on the latest research as well as your own clinical instincts.

Navigating the Intersection of Electronics, Sleep, Myopia and Eye Health

The ubiquity of digital devices compels us to understand and address their consequences with patients.

Departments

Advanced Procedures

Cloudy Gives Way to Clear

YAG laser capsulotomy is an in-office ophthalmic procedure that has been giving sight back to patients for decades.

Chairside

See the World

Jump on a plane and travel for work and play.

Clinical Quandaries

Hot and Juicy

Immediate diagnosis and treatment are necessary for this common condition.

Diagnostic Quiz

A Pigmentation Puzzle

When you see a suspicious lesion, do you have a plan for assessment and monitoring?

Focus on Refraction

Is This Actually Amblyopia?

Make sure to exclude any other reasons why a decrease in acuity might occur.

Ocular Surface Review

OSD Management in Glaucoma Patients

How to minimize the use of drops while treating both conditions.

Outlook

Setting the Record Straight on Surgery

It turns out optometrists have performed hundreds of thousands of laser procedures without incident.

Retina Quiz

Spot Inspection

How do you stratify risk for this patient?

Surgical Minute

Move Over, PK

DMEK and DSEK are now the most commonly performed keratoplasty procedures.

Through My Eyes

Stop Punishing Doctors

It’s time to reform healthcare—where it truly needs it.

You Be the Judge

Adult Acne Delays HZO Diagnosis

Effective treatment of this condition requires a timely detection and intervention.