One result of the digital age is that products in
the marketplace seem to have a short shelf life.
As the pace of innovation delivers the latest and
greatest, consumers are challenged to upgrade,
update, or replace products and services that w…
Almost 40 years ago when I attended the
Massachusetts College of Optometry, there was
endless buzz about how a “new optometry”
would, someday, serve as a key player in the
American health care system. The first Rhode Island diagnostic
dru…
Approximately 125 million people worldwide
wear contact lenses.sup1/sup Fortunately, there is a wide
range of lenses to fit patients’ individual preferences.
There is no “one-size-fits-all” contact
lens just like one shoe size does n…
This month’s cover articles feature an expanded
discussion of contact lens innovations and technologies.
The collection of articles explores a wide
range of topics aimed at improving clinicians’ success
with fitting contact lenses, keeping…
This article will explore the why, how, and what
of success in fitting patients with multifocal
contact lenses.
WHY: TO IMPROVE PATIENTS’
QUALITY OF LIFE
Like most eye care professionals around the world,
we are faced w…
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), famous as a philosopher and pillar of the rational Enlightenment, for many years actually earned his living as a maker of telescopic lenses. He was knowledgeable about all the contemporary ideas about the physics of light an…