Contact Lens Update

• Issue 19 | April 2014

  Contact lens discomfort - The essentials

  What do we know about contact lens discomfort? The 2013 Report of the Workshop on Contact Lens Discomfort, spearheaded by the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society, was essential reading for eye care practitioners. If you haven't had time to read the full report, published in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, this edition of Contact Lens Update will provide you with some highlights as well as links to the report itself. In this edition, Sruthi Srinivasan provides an overview of the purpose and outcomes of the workshop; the research team at the Centre for Contact Lens Research summarizes each of the committee's reports; Anson Chan describes the case of a typical patient presenting with contact lens discomfort; and Subbam Basuthkar describes a study investigating the correlates of subjective and objective measurements of ocular discomfort.

  • Editorial - Overview: 2013 report from the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society’s Workshop on Contact Lens Discomfort
  • Feature Article - Summary: 2013 Report of the Workshop on Contact Lens Discomfort
  • Conference Highlights - Correlates of Subjective and Objective Measures of Ocular Discomfort
  • Clinical Insight - Contact lens discomfort solved through appropriate choice of lenses

• Issue 18 | March 2014

  Technology and contact lens research

  Technological advances allow us to view the eye in fresh ways, leading to interesting and sometimes significant progress in our interpretation of ocular physiology and its interaction with contact lenses. In this edition of Contact Lens Update: Nicola Pritchard provides an overview of new technologies for assessing the contact lens wearing eye, Marc Schulze reviews an article (Hwang et al., 2013) about real-time, three-dimensional imaging of the meibomian glands, Daniela Hagenasr and Mathew Petroll report on three-dimensional assessment of in vivo corneal wound healing using a modified HRT-RCM confocal microscope and Alisa Sivak summarizes 2013 conference presentations on the subject of new technology.

  • Editorial - New technologies for assessing the contact lens wearing eye
  • Feature Article - In vivo 3D meibography of the human eyelid using real time imaging Fourier-Domain OCT
  • Conference Highlights - 3-Dimensional Assessment of In Vivo Corneal Wound Healing using a Modified HRT-RCM Confocal Microscope
  • Clinical Insight - Conference synopsis: New technology in contact lens research

• Issue 17 | November 2013

  It's A Question of Comfort

  Is contact lens discomfort still a problem? We checked in with some of the world's leading experts. In this edition of Contact Lens Update, Eric Papas and Nancy Keir weigh in on the depth of this issue as it stands today, Robin Chalmers explores the effects of refitting struggling lens wearers with daily disposables, and Nancy Keir reviews a 2006 paper exploring the similarities and differences between dry eye and contact lens-related dry eye. Don't forget to download our Research In Brief, which reviews the link between comfort and terminology used to characterize the surface properties of a contact lens.

  • Editorial - Contact lens comfort: Relevant enough to warrant two editorials?
  • Feature Article - Dryness symptoms among an unselected clinical population with and without contact lens wear: An article review
  • Conference Highlights - Struggle with soft contact lens wear is addressed by refitting with daily disposable lenses
  • Clinical Insight - Research Brief: Characterizing the surface properties of a contact lens

• Issue 16 | October 2013

  Contact lens materials

  Today’s lens materials offer a multitude of benefits, including better comfort and antimicrobial properties. In this edition of Contact Lens Update, Lyndon Jones revisits the benefits of hydrogel materials; Lakshman Subbaraman reviews a 2012 article assessing lens properties that impact the uptake of preservatives; Debarun Dutta presents the results of a study investigating the efficacy of antimicrobial contact lenses; and Alisa Sivak summarizes new materials research.

  • Editorial - Hydrogel contact lens materials: Dead and buried or about to rise again?
  • Feature Article - Contact lens material properties that influence preservative uptake
  • Conference Highlights - Antimicrobial activity of melimine or cathelicidin bound to contact lenses
  • Clinical Insight - New developments in contact lens materials: A conference synopsis

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