Statistics on eye injuries should concern consumers and eye care professionals. This course will look at the occupational and recreations areas posing the greatest risk and present the latest products to provide protection and improve performance.
Calculating position of wear explores beyond the exam chair. A patient’s nominal prescription sometimes must be converted into real world optics in 3D space. Explore nominal, effective, and compensated lens dioptric power based on position of wear in 3D space, implications of refractive index and substrate on dioptric vs. surface power, spherical and cylindrical contact lens vs. spectacle power based on vertex.
This course will review in detail several interesting contact lens patients. The cases are presented in the S.O.A.P. format. Each case presented will discuss pertinent information that must be obtained in order to make proper decisions concerning the patient. Emphasis will be given to the discussion of the various management options offered by each unique case presented.
Presenter: Phernell Walker, Pure Optics, LLC
Designing the most optically precise and cosmetically appealing lens shouldn't be left to common myths and optical roulette. Here's a course that will explore the effects of varying refractive indices, lens thickness in every meridian, spherical/apheric versus atoric lens design, reflectance factor, and the effects on visual field. The implications of both visual acuity and practical lens design will be discussed.
