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Contact Lens Tolerances
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Contact Lens Design and Specifications
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Practice Management
Introduction Contact lens practice resides within a general eye care practice embracing the prescribing, fitting, dispensing and long-term management of contact lens-wearing patients. Thus practice management issues that have an impact on contact lens practice are first all those that…
Compliance
Introduction Patients are often lying when they say they have regularly taken the prescribed medicine . Hippocrates, 400 bc The issue that Hippocrates was highlighting was that of compliance – an important field of medicine that has been the subject…
Complications
Introduction Just as contact lenses (CLs) have become easier to fit over the past century, our knowledge base of the ocular response to lens wear has expanded exponentially over the same period. Thus there has been a commensurate shift in…
Aftercare
Introduction Follow-up examinations represent a fundamental aspect of healthcare, especially when managing ongoing or chronic conditions. In this context, contact lens wear can be considered a healthcare modality that requires ongoing management. The aftercare examination is therefore an important cornerstone…
Patient Education
Introduction The quality of instruction and advice given to a patient contributes to the success or failure of the new wearer ( ). Therefore, the importance of the dispensing visit should not be underestimated, and this chapter covers some of…
Preliminary Examination
Introduction The preliminary examination includes the taking of a full history and initial patient assessment (see Chapter 33 ), ocular measurements, refraction, slit-lamp biomicroscopy and additional tests. The examination enables the practitioner to advise patients on their suitability for contact…
Diagnostic Instruments
Introduction The purpose of this chapter is to review a number of the clinical instruments that are of utility in the preliminary examination and ongoing care of contact lens patients. The emphasis will be on the design and principles of…