Optometry in 2024: What to Expect for the New Year
WEBDecember 21, 2023. If optometry in 2024 is anything like what we’ve witnessed in 2023, it could prove to be a year filled with innovative therapies for dry eye disease (DED), legislative victories, and new ways of comanaging geographic atrophy (GA). While optometrists have many reasons to celebrate, some events may cloud what has, for the ...
Lens-Based Myopia Control: Know When to Treat and Expect Results
WEBDec 15, 2023 — Treatments were decided based on the results of this data analysis and patients were monitored every 3 to 6 months for progression, which was defined as 0.25 D or greater myopia spherical equivalent progression (as assessed with cycloplegic autorefraction) or greater than 0.10 mm axial elongation in 6 months. Children who showed progression while on one treatment, received a change in treatment.
Multifocals for Myopia Management – More Than Meets the Eye
WEBDec 10, 2021 — Low dose atropine drops, orthokeratology and multifocal contact lenses have all demonstrated success with reducing the rate of myopia progression and in reducing the axial length of the eye. 1-3 Recently, a lens with a multifocal lens design has been approved for the management of myopia progression, the …
AMD Progression Markers Include Reflectivity, Thickness Changes ...
WEB5 hours ago — Observable changes in the retinal layers, detected with optical coherence tomography (OCT), correlate with known parafoveal changes in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and rods, and may serve as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) progression biomarkers, according to research published in Ophthalmology Science.. Researchers retrospectively reviewed images from 25 patients with AMD ...
Red Light Therapy Provides Myopia Control ... - Optometry Advisor
WEBNovember 22, 2023. As optometrists struggle with the demand created by an emerging myopia epidemic, repeated low-level red light therapy may provide an alternative to contact lens wear or atropine treatment for slowing axial progression and spherical equivalent refraction (SER). While the treatment has yet to receive US Food and Drug ...
SLT Gains Traction as a First-Line Glaucoma Treatment
WEBMay 10, 2024. Open-angle glaucoma prevalence is projected to rise over the next quarter century, and optometrists, particularly those practicing in states that allow them to perform laser procedures, are finding that selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) is gaining first-line treatment status. 1 Although topical ocular hypotensive eye drops ...
Optometry Dx: The Accoutrements of Oculocutaneous Albinism
WEBMay 30, 2024 — Optometry Dx: An Introduction to The Accoutrements of Oculocutaneous Albinism. Ellen Ren, OD. |. May 30, 2024. 1 / 2. FIGURE 2: Fundus photo of the right eye showing a blonde fundus, myopic tilted hypoplastic optic nerve head and foveal hypoplasia. FIGURE 1: Fundus photo of the left eye showing a …
A Clinician's Guide to Peripheral Iridotomy - Optometry Advisor
WEBDec 2, 2022 — A Clinician’s Guide to Peripheral Iridotomy. Jeff M. Miller, OD. |. December 2, 2022. 1 / 4. Figure 2C: A small bleed appears in the PI opening during late pigment plume. Figure 1: Large air bubbles are common among irides pretreated and thinned with a green laser. Figure 2A: A view of the iris before initiating YAG laser treatment.
2022: A Year of Triumphs and Breakthroughs in Optometry
WEBDec 22, 2022 — Optometry Advisor looks back at some of the top stories of 2022. In 2022, optometrists saw legislative victories in Virginia — where optometrists can now perform YAG laser capsulotomies, selective laser trabeculoplasties, and laser peripheral iridotomies — and Colorado — where ODs can now perform those …
High-Alert Medications - Optometry Advisor
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