It is estimated that 45 million people in the United States wear contact lenses.1 For many individuals, contact lenses have become the primary choice for vision correction, and for good reasons! Contact lenses offer to correct for a wide range of nearsighted, farsighted and astigmatic prescriptions and have become readily …
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Here are the contact lenses that I routinely prescribe and my favorite contact lenses for 2019! Continuing with our yearly update, I’ve highlighted my favorite contact lenses! This year there are some new lenses to highlight, and some others have even dropped off. Of course, this list is strictly based …
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Another online contact lens company? There is no doubt that daily contact lenses are the lens modality of choice for eyecare providers given their increased water content and the decreased rate of complication compared to other modalities. However, contact lens wearers are not always easily convinced by those statistics alone. …
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Getting comfortable with multifocal contact lenses can be difficult, but with the right strategy and patient education you can be very successful. Dr. Gabrielle Boyd shares her top tips for fitting multifocal contact lenses in this video interview. Dr. Boyd recommends gathering information before you even start the fitting process. …
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An estimated 45 million Americans wear contact lenses with the most common reason being for nearsightedness. Contact lenses are worn to replace glasses wear but are more than a means for cosmetic correction—they are recognized as a medical device by the FDA. When it comes to irregular corneas or high …
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There are many great benefits of daily disposable contact lenses. Despite these benefits, we know that oftentimes cost or other factors impact the value our patients perceive in them, driving them to start off in reusable lenses, particularly for those first time wearers. In this video interview, Dr. Melissa Barnett …
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Discomfort is the prevailing reason why many patients are opting to drop out of contact lens wear, and managing discomfort in contact lenses rests on our shoulders as eyecare professionals. While it is easy to blame the ocular surface or dryness for discomfort issues, optometrists know that treating surface level …
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This article was produced in partnership with Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc, a proud supporter of NewGradOptometry.com and new graduate optometrists 😎 Contact Lens Dropout Has Tremendous Consequences Contact lens dropout presents a challenge for both the patient and the optometrist. When patients choose to quit on their contact …
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In this video interview, we sat down with Dr. Jennifer Lyerly and talked solutions for eyestrain, but particularly for those emmetropic patients. It can often be difficult to figure out how to provide proper service to emmetropic or near-emmetropic patients suffering from digital eyestrain, but Dr. Jennifer Lyerly, cofounder of …
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This is a sponsored post by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. a supporter of NewGradOptometry & new graduate optometrists! 😎 Astigmatic patients can sometimes be challenging to successfully fit in contact lenses. There are a variety of factors that can impact the success of a toric contact lens fitting …
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