I recently published this case study in Contact Lens Spectrum: Contact Lens Spectrum : October 2023 Specialty Lens Supplement (clspectrum.com) The patient in this case study is my son. He was born with a congenital ptosis in his left eye which induced a lazy eye by the time he was 3 months old. I have
Read moreWe need oxygen to breathe and so do our eyes. Blood vessels deliver the oxygen from our lungs to the rest of our body. But the cornea, the front of our eye, does not have any blood vessels. At least it shouldn’t to maintain it’s clear transparent normal state. But when we wear contact lenses
Read moreEvery day I have the same conversation with a patient who just turned 40. Every. single. day. The conversation goes something like this: Patient: “I can’t see my phone! Everything is blurry up close and my arms are not long enough to hold my phone far enough away so that it’s in focus. What is
Read moreIt’s been recently brought to my attention that my hard contact lens wearing patients have it a lot harder than my soft contact lens wearing patients. Soft contact lens solution is readily available at pharmacies and grocery stores and big box retailers. But hard contact cleaning solutions, conditioning solutions, insertion and removal plungers, even preservative
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