With small, handheld diagnostic instruments ODs can carry out complete refractive exams anywhere, for a company’s staff on-site, at schools, nursing homes or on mission trips.
Gas permeable (GP) contacts are rigid lenses that comprise about 10 percent of the contact lens market. While the market for corneal lenses is declining, the...
Eye drops, fish oil tablets and punctal plugs: No, these aren’t garage bands you never heard of. They all treat the signs and symptoms of dry...
AN ESTIMATED 2,000 people a day injure their eyes on the job, according to Prevent Blindness America. About 90 percent of these injuries could be prevented...
A roundup of contact lens solutions.
Educate patients and ask them the right questions and you can sell more blue-light products.
“Come on, man! You can not be serious!” Anyone who watched tennis great John McEnroe play in the 1980s will remember his temper tantrums toward the...
With summer just around the corner and blinding sunshine on its way, your patients may start to hum Timbuk3’s 1986 song “The Future’s So Bright I...
The intersection of technology and healthcare has birthed essential tools such as virtual try-on which allows patients to try glasses before ordering them. Patients can also...
Eyecare pros share advice on selling these staple products.
Last month’s sold-out SHOT show in Las Vegas had buyers from all 50 states and over 100 countries with their sights trained on the latest and...
With the popularity of daily disposable lenses you might expect the extended wear lens category to be suffering. However, contact lens companies say more patients are...
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