The “Contacts with Conway” series of YouTube videos have been surprisingly well-received by both industry and the public. So much so in fact, that we regularly receive requests to explain or expand upon particular topics and, where possible, we use this feedback when deciding future episodes. One such request...
Read moreKeratoconus, without exception, has always been our number one indication for specialty lenses, particularly scleral lenses, for both pre and post-surgical intervention. Studies from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, by Godefrooij et al.¹ show that the incidence of keratoconus may be much more common than originally thought. The annual...
Read moreIn the second instalment of the Slit Lamp Leries, Martin Conway looks at Oblate Cornea. You can read the previous article which examined Demodex Mites here. This month’s image from Marco Tovaglia won the BCLA Diane Gould Photo Contest in 2021. It very clearly illustrates the flattening of the...
Read moreNever a dull moment in our industry. Although this past period will surely be remembered as ‘the COVID era’, there are so many new and exciting developments going on that maybe in the future, all of these technological advances may outweigh the negative vibes of COVID for our industry....
Read moreBackground Post-surgical ectasia is a complication in which a cornea that has undergone a refractive surgical procedure becomes progressively irregular and thinned leading to protrusion and undesirable visual disturbances such as blur and higher order aberrations. When screening a candidate for LASIK, many factors must be considered to reduce...
Read moreBackground Corneal opacity is the fifth leading cause of blindness worldwide¹. A common cause of corneal opacity is infectious keratitis. In developed countries, contact lenses are the leading cause of infectious keratitis while in developing countries it is from corneal trauma during agriculture work¹. The most common organism responsible...
Read moreClass – ‘Contact Lenses of the Americas Specialist Symposium’ – is an initiative led by Carlos Mayoral (Key Account Manager – Latin America) whose vision was to bring world-class specialty contact lens education to Latin America in an inclusive and accessible format. Class was launched as an educational conference, first held in...
Read moreIntroduction The vast majority of the lenses we fit in contact lens practice are soft lenses. The amount of attention that goes into ‘fitting’ soft lenses is limited in contrast to the focus on scleral lens fitting, corneal lens fitting, and orthokeratology, for instance. This case shows how taking...
Read moreOn the 28th and 29th January 2024 the 41st meeting of the Congrès d’Optométrie et de Contactologie (C.O.C) , organized by the Association des Optométristes de France (AOF) took place in Montrouge, just outside Paris, France. This congress has grown from 100 delegates 10 years ago to 900 today, and...
Read morePhilipp and I joined Contamac on the same day over 11 years ago. He was new to the industry, and I had been recruited to head up professional services in the UK and Europe. The time has come for Philipp to move on in his career, but before he...
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