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It’s A Question of Comfort

Struggle with soft contact lens wear is addressed by refitting with daily disposable lenses

November 29th, 2013

Robin Chalmers explores the effects of refitting struggling lens wearers with daily disposables. Continue reading →

Research Brief: Characterizing the surface properties of a contact lens

November 29th, 2013

Terms like wettability, lubricity, contact angle and coefficient of friction are often used in describing interactions between a contact lens and the eye. What do these terms mean and how do they relate to contact lens comfort? Continue reading →

Dryness symptoms among an unselected clinical population with and without contact lens wear: An article review

November 29th, 2013

Nancy Keir reviews a 2006 paper exploring the similarities and differences between dry eye and contact lens-related dry eye Continue reading →

Contact lens discomfort – the battle continues

November 29th, 2013

The mystery of contact lens discomfort is that there are many wearers with contact lens discomfort without noticeable signs and who note relief almost immediately upon lens removal. A combination of intellect, detective skills and science and technology will be necessary to solve this complicated problem. Key questions can provide focus and help lead to a better understanding. Continue reading →

Contact lens comfort: Relevant enough to warrant two editorials?

November 29th, 2013

Eric Papas and Nancy Keir weigh in on the depth of this issue as it stands today. Continue reading →

Contact lens discomfort: still a problem

November 19th, 2013

Eye care practitioners must be getting weary of being told that the single biggest problem holding back business growth in the contact lens world is discomfort. Nevertheless, it must be acknowledged that in one way or another, discomfort has been an issue since the modality was popularised, first through the invention of corneal lenses by Tuohy in the 1950s and then soft lenses by Wichterle in the 1960s. While over the intervening years the focus has probably shifted from insertion discomfort to late day symptoms of dryness, comfort-related complaints remain a challenging issue that all clinicians must deal with at some time or other. Continue reading →

Issues

  • Multifocal Contact Lenses
  • Artificial Tears: An Update
  • Myopia: New Evidence and Best Practices
  • Neuropathic Pain
  • Specialty Rigid Lenses
  • Contact lens compliance
  • Pandemic update
  • Digital Devices and Dry Eye: A Growing Issue
  • The long and short of axial length
  • Using BCLA CLEAR with your patients
  • Helping your patients through allergy season
  • Getting the measure of meibomian glands
  • 2020: An extraordinary year
  • Scleral lens update
  • A dose of myopia
  • New news since TFOS DEWS II
  • COVID-19 Special Edition
  • Material considerations
  • Putting dry eye theory into practice
  • Getting started with Ortho-K
  • Infiltrates – an update
  • Staining
  • Myopia matters: Summarising the IMI reports
  • Lids and contact lenses
  • Myths
  • Revisiting patient compliance
  • Contact Lenses & Kids
  • Interprofessional Collaboration
  • Digital eye strain
  • New Dry Eye Technology
  • Update on Presbyopia
  • Taking stock of dry eye disease: DEWS II
  • Scleral Lenses
  • Pain and Sensation
  • Lab measurements in clinical practice
  • Control of pediatric myopia
  • Nutrition
  • Rethinking contact lens deposits
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  • Daily Disposables
  • Eyelash Mites (Demodex)
  • Outsmarting bacteria with new technology
  • Youth and contact lenses
  • Sports Vision
  • Ocular effects of UV radiation from the sun
  • Eyelid Conditions
  • Makeup: Impact on ocular health
  • Myopia Control – Update 2014
  • The Growing Prevalence of Myopia
  • Cosmetic contact lenses
  • Contact lens discomfort – The essentials
  • Technology and contact lens research
  • It's A Question of Comfort
  • Contact lens materials
  • Let's talk about SICS
  • Conjunctival Controversies
  • Kids & Contact Lenses
  • One-day silicone hydrogel lenses
  • Solutions
  • Spotlight on Scleral lenses
  • Drug delivery via contact lenses
  • Ocular allergies
  • Reducing lens case contamination
  • Dry eye and meibomium gland dysfunction
  • Myopia Control
  • Presbyopia
  • Compliance and non-compliance
  • Lens care
  • Celebrating 50 years of contact lenses

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