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The Contact Lens Institute research found that both new and long-term wearers of contact lenses were positively impacted by their eye care providers allowing adequate chair time during exams, among other factors.
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(CME) Community Practice Connections™: A Closer Look at Neurotrophic Keratitis—Ensuring Timely Diagnosis and Taking Early Action
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(COPE) Community Practice Connections™: A Closer Look at Neurotrophic Keratitis—Ensuring Timely Diagnosis and Taking Early Action
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Community Practice Connections™: Mastering the Multidisciplinary Management of Glaucoma—Understanding Advances in the Spectrum of Treatment Innovation (CME/CNE Credit)
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Community Practice Connections™: Mastering the Multidisciplinary Management of Glaucoma—Understanding Advances in the Spectrum of Treatment Innovation (COPE Credit)
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(COPE) Community Practice Connections™: Optimizing Multidisciplinary Care for nAMD & DME – Expert Perspectives with New Dosing Strategies on the Horizon
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(CME) Community Practice Connections™: Dry Eye Disease and Novel Tear Stimulating Therapies – Optimizing Outcomes in Patient Sub-Types
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(CME) Community Practice Connections™: Advancing Management Strategies in Geographic Atrophy– Mapping Out the Continuum of Care in a New Era of Transformative Treatment
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(COPE) Community Practice Connections™: Advancing Management Strategies in Geographic Atrophy– Mapping Out the Continuum of Care in a New Era of Transformative Treatment
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(COPE) Community Practice Connections™: Dry Eye Disease and Novel Tear Stimulating Therapies – Optimizing Outcomes in Patient Sub-Types
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(CME) Community Practice Connections™: Optimizing Multidisciplinary Care for nAMD & DME – Expert Perspectives with New Dosing Strategies on the Horizon
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(CME) Key Advances in Cataract Surgery – Applications for New Technologies in an Ever-Changing Landscape
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(COPE) Key Advances in Cataract Surgery – Applications for New Technologies in an Ever-Changing Landscape
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(CME) Stratifying the Spectrum of Care in Glaucoma Management – Advancing Treatment with a Vast Armamentarium
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Current, Relevant, Useful: Key Takeaways from the CRU Eye Symposium Community Practice Connections™: Current, Relevant, Useful: Key Takeaways from the CRU Eye Symposium (COPE Credit)
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Current, Relevant, Useful: Key Takeaways from the CRU Eye Symposium (CME Credit)
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Managing Ocular Toxicities in Patients With Cancer: Understanding ADCs and the ECP’s Role in Collaborative Management Therapy on the Horizon (CME Credit)
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Managing Ocular Toxicities in Patients With Cancer: Understanding ADCs and the ECP’s Role in Collaborative Management Therapy on the Horizon (COPE Credit)
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SimulatED™: Applying Advanced Treatment for nAMD & DME - Simulating New Strategies for Clinical Management
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Rapid Reviews in Retina™: Emerging Updates from Winter 2024 – Addressing the Wealth of New Data in Treatments for nAMD and DME (CME Track)
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Community Practice Connections™: Optimizing Outcomes in Glaucoma Management - Applying Evidence to Practice with a Multitude of Treatment Options (CME Track)
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Community Practice Connections™: Mastering the New Treatment Paradigm in Geographic Atrophy – From Detection to Intervention (CME Track)
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Assessing the Evidence for Extending Treatment Intervals in nAMD and DME Management – Expert Insights into Innovative Approaches (CME Track)
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Assessing the Evidence for Extending Treatment Intervals in nAMD and DME Management – Expert Insights into Innovative Approaches (COPE Track)
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Surv.AI Says: Real-World Insights Into Patient Burden & Evolving Strategies in nAMD and DME (CME Credit)
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FDA myopia progression workshop brings together ODs, MDs
October 7th 2016The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently brought together representatives from optometry and ophthalmology to discuss regulatory review of contact lenses and future medical devices to control the progression of myopia, primarily in children.
6 contact lens wear and care habits for patients and ODs
September 20th 2016As a profession, we have seen the benefits of transitioning patients to contact lens modalities that are replaced frequently. Innovations in material technologies have allowed advanced designs, including greater oxygen permeability to provide a healthier, more comfortable wearing experience.
Opternative and 1- 800 Contacts: Two wrongs don’t make a right
August 25th 2016The recent news in our profession was an announced partnership between Opternative and 1-800-Contacts.1 With InstaRx powered by Opternative, customers can “stay home, eat some ice cream, and get a vision exam” according to the 1-800 Contacts website.
Fitting ortho-k contact lenses
July 25th 2016Orthokeratology is a specialty type of contact lens fitting in which the patient wears correction overnight and is free from wearing visual correction during the day. By fitting the patient into a reverse geometry gas permeable lens, the practitioner can make controlled but temporary refractive changes to the cornea. It is a treatment that has been proven to be safe and effective in both children and adults with promising results in the area of controlling myopia progression.
Using toricity with scleral lenses
June 17th 2016Scleral lenses are indispensable in a specialty contact lens practice. The indications for scleral lens use are well established in the literature and range from visual rehabilitation of irregular corneas to severe ocular surface disease management.1-4 Many more uses may still be revealed.
Monthly contact lens wearers can thrive, not just survive
June 13th 2016Contact lens practitioners have a range of soft contact lens replacement modalities available-from daily disposable to reusable lenses with a two-week or monthly replacement schedule. Personality, lifestyle factors, and ocular health should all be taken into account when deciding which lens and which lens modality to prescribe.
Using tinted contact lenses in practice
June 10th 2016From the first introduction on the cinematic screens for visual effects in 1950 to its mainstream use today for masking both natural iris pigment and ocular disfigurement, colored contact lenses are an important addition to your contact lens toolbox. Industry has made fitting this type of lens more appealing by offering improvements in color matching techniques and healthier materials compatible with commercially available inks and dyes.
1-800 Contacts ramps up legislative fights
May 25th 20161-800 Contacts is ramping up its fight against organized optometry at the state and federal levels over legislation that would change important aspects of contact lens prescriptions and dispensing, such as longer expiration dates, elimination of contact lens brand on the Rx, and enacting a contact lens patient bill of rights.
7 techniques to boost your annual supply sales
May 16th 2016Let’s talk about an elephant in the room. Some practices are incredibly effective at selling annual supplies of contact lenses, and some practices are not. Just like daily disposables, low sales numbers are blamed on “the demographics of my practice.”
Industry panel talks state of contact lens industry
April 14th 2016Contact lens manufacturer representatives discussed the state of the contact lens industry, including consumer education, doctor-patient communication, and legislative battles. Scot Morris, OD, FAAO, posed questions during the Global Contact Lens Forum at Vision Expo East.
JJVC discontinues UPP, looks to support contact lens advocacy
April 13th 2016Johnson & Johnson Vision Care (JJVC) has discontinued its unilateral pricing policy (UPP) in an effort to focus the company’s resources on strengthening the doctor-patient relationship and advocating against contact lens deregulation. In UPP’s place, JJVC will be launching a new patient rewards program. This change is effective April 13, 2016.