The Prevalence of Refractive Error in an Ageing Population
Are We Ignoring or Embracing the Unmet Need? By Mile Brujic, OD, FAAO Eye care has evolved at a tremendous rate over the last decade. In addition to providing patients…
A Look at Custom Contact Lenses in the Film Industry
It’s a Wrap! By Karen Hughes, FBDO CL From the minute eye care professionals start studying, they are taught about the general public and how to deal with them, the…
Excellence in Customized Scleral Lens Keratoconus Fitting
By Luciano Bastos, CLAO Patient male, 42 years old, he has binocular, stage IV keratoconus in OS. He also has stage III keratoconus at OD but is not as complex…
Carlos Mayoral – Key Account Manager, South America
Please describe your role at Contamac: As the Key Account Manager for Latin America, my responsibility is to look after my customers with their needs, whether in material, professional services…
Salzmann’s Nodular Degeneration
By Martin Conway & Mark Darling RE + LE Salzmann’s Nodular Degeneration (SND) is a non-inflammatory, progressive corneal degeneration, characterised by elevated, whitish-grey subepithelial nodules. The nodules are developed by…
10 things I wish I knew before graduating optometry school
By Dr Stephanie Woo, O.D. After the blood, sweat and tears that optometry school can create, we are all at the same point on that graduating day. Where will we…
The Evolution of Scleral Lens Fitting
By Martin Conway Scleral lens fitting has become increasingly mainstream over the past decade. Once the preserve of specialist practice and confined mainly to hospital practice, it has become the…
Power profiles of Peripheral Additions using topographers with Soft Contact Lenses in Myopia Control
By Pascal Blaser and Ian Sexton, F.B.D.O. CL Introduction Various studies have demonstrated that both soft center-distance multifocal lenses and orthokeratology lenses are an effective option in myopia management. On average, the…
Mark Eddleston – Project Leader
Please describe your role at Contamac: As a project leader within the R&D team at Contamac I am heavily focussed on developing new contact lens materials. My role typically comprises…
A Fisherman’s Tale – New 200Dk material eliminates episodes of microcystic edema
By Melissa Barnett, OD, FAAO Penetrating keratoplasty in patients with keratoconus may provide good long‐term visual rehabilitation. There is a relatively low rate of graft failure in this cohort of…