Google Glass- An Optometrist Views The Good, The Bad, And The Downright Ugly! Google Glass is coming! Initially I felt it was a gimmick that would have little effect. Now I think differently. It will be the biggest change in communications since the advent of the cell phone, only growing at a much faster rate. IN [...]
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Categories: Contact Lens Problems, Contact Lenses, Dry Eye Syndrome, Dry Eyes
You Need A Little Testosoterone To Wear Contact Lenses Today No, you don’t need to be a man or need a man to wear contact lenses. But a little testosterone cream may help women continue wearing contact lenses as the birthdays add up. Dr,. Charles Conner Jr. and Dr. Charles Haines have been working on [...]
Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lenses
Categories: Contact Lenses, Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis-GPC
Silicone Contact Lenses-What You Need To Know The last 12 years have been a revolution in terms of contact lens materials.Adding silicone has allowed for over a 500% increase in the amount of oxygen passing through the lens to the cornea. Well over half of all new contact lens fits today are using these new [...]
Contact Lens Glaucoma Test
Categories: Contact Lenses, Eye Pressure, glaucoma, pimary open angle glaucoma
Can A Contact Lens Help Diagnose Glaucoma? A company called Sensimed is improving the early diagnosis of glaucoma with a “wired” contact lens. One of the dilemmas in understanding early glaucoma detection is testing the eye pressure at the right time. Eye doctors have found eye pressure fluctuates throughout the day and a single reading may yield the pressure [...]
Contact Lens Cure For Nearsightedness
Categories: Contact Lenses, Nearsighted -Myopia, Uncategorized
Nearsightedness Controlled With New Contact Lens Technology On June 30 2011 the Myopia Control With Simultaneous Vision Approach Clinical Study was registered as complete at ClinicalTrials.gov. This double blind study involved 100 children testing a contact lens designed to slow the progression of nearsightedness (myopia). Optometry researchers have been studying the interaction between central deatailed [...]
Contact Lenses To Treat Eye Allergies
Categories: Contact Lens Problems, Eye Allergies, Uncategorized
Acuvue K The Contact Lenses For Itchy Eyes Contact lenses are about to enter a new realm as drug delivery devices. While a number of applications are expected, Acuvue may be the first off the block with an antihistamine releasing lens. In 2007 Vistakon, the manufacturer of the Acuvue lens family, sponsored a clinical study of [...]