March 15, 2020

Features

Cataract

Four Steps to Make Premium IOLs Worth the Cost

Cataract patients have high demands. Here’s how clinicians can use today’s technologies and techniques to meet them.

Contact Lenses

What OCT Can Offer Your Specialty Lens Fits

This technology is especially useful for customizing the design and troubleshooting any associated conditions.

Diagnostic Skills & Techniques

What OCT Can Offer Your Specialty Lens Fits

This technology is especially useful for customizing the design and troubleshooting any associated conditions.

Dry Eye

How—and Why—to Choose Dry Eye Drugs

Properly pairing a patient with a pharmaceutical requires an understanding of the individual’s underlying condition and overall health.

Pharmaceuticals

Modifying Your Glaucoma Regimen: When, Why and How

Managing this disease requires careful consideration of myriad factors. Here’s how you can structure your approach.

Steroid Wars: New Drugs Challenge Old Habits

Here’s how novel delivery systems and updated formulations may one day overcome the current challenges inherent in topical steroid prescribing.

The Do's & Don'ts of Oral Medication

Understanding when and how to prescribe oral medications will help optometrists provide optimal patient care.

Departments

Chairside

The Rebate Racket

Whoever thought asking patients to mail in proof-of-purchase to get money back on their contact lenses was a good idea?

Clinical Quandaries

Chew on This

A dental abscess may be the cause of a patient’s preseptal or orbital cellulitis.

Coding Connection

Spring—and Pollen—is in the Air

Are you ready for ocular allergy season? New testing could make it a breeze.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Protect Your PK Patients

Scleral lenses can improve vision for these eyes if the right precautions are taken.

Diagnostic Quiz

Finding the Nerve

A patient with CN VII damage can’t get her lid to cover her cornea in one eye.

Outlook

Screening Measures

A meta-analysis challenges the belief that digital devices turbocharge myopia. But that doesn’t let kids off the hook.

Retina Quiz

Living in a Purple State

A patient with a compromised immune system has a strange visual presentation. Can her peripheral retina explain why?

Review of Systems

Out of Rhythm

While amiodarone is highly effective, long-term use is associated with concerning ocular side effects.

The Essentials

A Peek at the Pinhole

This simple test can quickly categorize a patient’s reduced vision as either refractive or pathological. Here’s what else it can do.

Therapeutic Review

Pigmentary Glaucoma, Revisited

New pharmaceutical options may help manage secondary disease.

Through My Eyes

Don’t Blame Pharma

Industry bears the brunt of the public’s anger for healthcare costs, but the true culprits are more elusive.

Urgent Care

With Disc Edemas, Act Fast

Treatment is dependent upon the cause of the issue. It’s on you to identify it.