Features
High-Tech Contact Lenses
Recent developments in power sources, manufacturing, and the use of AI to help design contact lenses
By Alex Hui, OD, PhD, FAAO
Fighting Back Against HOAs
How customized wavefront-guided optics can help patients achieve their best possible vision
By Aaron Zimmerman, OD, MS, Jamie Kuzniar, OD, Trevor Fosso, OD
CLS@40: Peering Into the 21st Century
By JASON J. NICHOLS, OD, MPH, PhD
Web Exclusives
Prescribing for Presbyopia:
Pupils, Aberrations, and Miotic Impact
When thinking about the future of presbyopia management, consider pupil size, because it plays an important role in multifocal contact lens success
By NICHOLAS GIDOSH, OD
Dry Eye Dx and Tx:
Thinking About Thyroid Eye Disease
It may be possible to identify TED much earlier by considering it when examining the dry eye patient.
By Roxanna Potter, OD
Custom Soft Corner:
Flip the Script on Scleral Lenses
Some keratoconus patients—despite the better visual acuity provided by the improved optics—struggle to adapt to the visual experience provided by scleral lenses, inhibiting their success.
By Tiffany Andrzejewski, OD
Mastering Myopia:
Chasing 100% in Contact Lens Myopia Control
The first generation of myopia control spectacle lenses employed lenslets to achieve simultaneous vision correction and myopic defocus, delivering a gaze-independent optical treatment. Could contact lenses be next?
By Kate Gifford, PhD, BAppSc(Optom)Hons
AI in Practice:
The Clinic of the Future Is Closer Than You Think
The future I am presenting is not here yet, but with the help of artificial intelligence, we might just get there.
By DAVID L. KADING, OD, FAAO
Departments
Editor's Perspective:
Hindsight Calibrates Foresight
To commemorate past "Events of the Year," we asked for your feedback on which were the most remarkable over the decades.
By JASON J. NICHOLS, OD, MPH, PhD
The Business of Contact Lenses:
Multifocals, Miotics, and Extended Depth of Focus
The hardest thing I do in clinical practice is multifocal contact lens prescribing for the presbyopic patient.
By CLARKE D. NEWMAN, OD, FAAO
Orthokeratology Today:
The Future Is Overnight
For decades, innovation has focused on what can be placed on the ocular surface during the day. Orthokeratology challenges that assumption by shifting vision correction to a time when the patient is asleep.
By CHERYL CHAPMAN, OD, FIAOMC, FAAO, DIPL ABO
The Scleral Lens Vault:
An Aberrant Business Model
With a new lens delivery came a new visual failure—the same residual astigmatism that was measured before. How is this possible?
By Langis Michaud, OD, MSC, FAAO
Fast Forward to the Future:
Could It Be in the Future?
The inventors of contact lenses would hardly believe the progress that has been made in the last 50 years or so.
By DAVID L. KADING, OD, FAAO
Supported Content
Tremendous Opportunities With Daily Toric Lenses!
There are many eyecare providers who still believe daily toric contact lenses are more challenging to fit and take more chair time.
By JASON R. MILLER, OD, MBA, FAAO
Orthokeratology and the Importance of Proper Lens Care Routines
Teaching young patients (and their parents) proper lens hygiene can reduce chances of complications
By Brooke M. Messer, OD, FSLS, FAAO
Sclerals and the Long Game
Scleral lenses are an important option for the management of irregular astigmatism in individuals who have keratoconus and can provide significant visual and therapeutic benefits.
By Melissa Barnett, OD, FAAO, FSLS
Creating an Ortho-k Referral Network
Referrals come from everywhere in your community, not just from other doctors
By Sheryl Simms, OD
The Reservoir Tells a Story
It is well established that limited tear exchange in the scleral lens post-lens fluid reservoir decreases the clearance of inflammatory mediators, cellular debris, and metabolic byproduct.
By Melissa Barnett, OD, FAAO, FSLS
Find It. Treat It. Keep Them Wearing.
Dry eyes or ocular surface disease along with contact lens wear rarely works well together.
By JASON R. MILLER, OD, MBA, FAAO