December 15, 2023

Features

Cataract

Keeping Up With the Newest IOLs

We’re in a new era of cataract surgery, one with a plethora of good options. Find out what they are, which is best for each specific individual and how to properly comanage your patients.

Income Survey

2023 Income Trends: A Wealth of Experience

Established ODs in private practices put up big numbers this year, lifting overall averages in our survey, while many others—employed docs especially—say their earnings feel stagnant.

Surgery

Keeping Up With the Newest IOLs

We’re in a new era of cataract surgery, one with a plethora of good options. Find out what they are, which is best for each specific individual and how to properly comanage your patients.

Equipping Your Office for Minor Surgical Procedures

Successful implementation begins by ensuring you have the necessary tools at your disposal.

In-office Procedures: Prepare to Handle These Complications

The well-informed optometrist should be able to tackle most of these with relative ease.

Take SLT to the Next Level: 10 Questions to Ask Yourself

Optometrists who want to be adept at this procedure should have these answers ready.

Departments

Chairside

Unhappy Birthday

More trips around the sun means more chances for your patients to develop the dreaded presbyopia.

Clinical Quandaries

Adjust Your Expectations

A light-modifiable IOL may provide more precise vision post-op.

Diagnostic Quiz

The Ears Have It

A connection with the eyes can be present in more ways than one.

Focus on Refraction

Worth Your Time

Use of the Worth 4-dot test warrants some attention—there’s so much it information it can provide.

Glaucoma Grand Rounds

AMD Plus Glaucoma: Double Jeopardy

Having both conditions can make it more difficult to determine the causes of changes seen in our testing.

Outlook

Surgery Out of the Shadows

Optometry’s embrace of minor procedures is increasingly accepted to be simply one more facet of primary eyecare practice.

Retina Quiz

Scarred Vision

Inhaling a fungus may have led to this patient’s infection.

Surgical Minute

Step into the Vitreous

Get to know this minimally invasive floaters procedure.

Therapeutic Review

Ischemic Retinal Ordeal

Neovascular glaucoma requires prompt and aggressive management of IOP and VEGF production.

Through My Eyes

The Optometric Buffet

New meds and new laws give us unprecedented options. Dig in!

You Be the Judge

Maybe Too Thin?

A fashion model on Plaquenil for rheumatoid arthritis unexpectedly develops toxic maculopathy.