Question of the Day

I know that UV (ultraviolet light) is harmful to the external and internal structures of the eye. Which patients are most at risk? Eye specialists have known about the harmful...

One of my patients is 36 years old. He doesn’t need spectacles for distance but complains of visual discomfort and headaches with sustained near work. He works in an office with...

Many of my myopic patients who wear contact lenses complain of what sounds like dry eye symptoms, but on examination I can find no evidence of dry eye. What is going on?...

I have recently qualified and am working in my first practice where we have a lot of contact lens patients. One of the more experienced contact lens opticians tells me she only...

How can I use a person’s face shape to get better at advising on frame style selection? Frame style selection is important. People who are unhappy with the frame style of their...

I’ve just opened my first practice. I know that poor frame choice for a patient is likely to lead to a complaint and a remake with a different frame. How can I make sure my staff...

I have a patient who wants who has successfully worn single vision soft contact lenses for many years. He is now presbyopic and wants to try soft progressive lenses. He works a...

I want to supply soft progressive contact lenses to my patients. How do they work? I will focus here on progressive contact lenses and not bifocal contact lenses. Soft...

I want to start promoting soft progressive contact lenses in my practice. Friends in another practice have stopped offering these contact lenses because of the high number of...

I have a lot of older patients whom I have seen for many years. They are wearing older design progressive lenses and I have been steadily upgrading them to modern design...