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4.3KPractice ManagementOutcome Analytics Can Expand Your Myopia Management Practice
August 1, 2020 By James E. Grue, OD, and Ronald P. Snyder, OD, FAAO More than any time in the past, there...
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9.3KProducts & ServicesEnhancing Lives with MiSight 1 day Contact Lenses
Sponsored content July 15, 2020 What do you say to parents when they tell you they are concerned because their daughter’s distance...
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6.6KProducts & ServicesTeach Your Patients Well
Sponsored content July 15, 2020 By Monica Jong, B. Optom, PhD It seems that no industry has escaped the far-reaching impacts of...
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4.4KProducts & ServicesThe Myopia Pandemic
July 15, 2020 By J. Annette Parker-Herriott, OD, FCOVD Riddle me this, what do COVID-19 and myopia have in common? According to...
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15.5KClinicalTopical Low-Dose Atropine: A Global Perspective
June 24, 2020 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA Chief Medical Editor, Review of Myopia Management The use of atropine to...
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8.5KClinicalWhat’s Normal, What’s Not? Emmetropisation and Normal Ocular Growth in Caucasian and Asian Children
July 1, 2020 By Koumbo Ornella PhD candidate, Brien Holden Vision Institute Emmetropisation is a process by which the components of the...
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3.4KPatient CommunicationMyopic Children: Who Should Get Referred and How To Talk To Mom So They Actually Go
July 1, 2020 By Gary Gerber, OD My optometry training at the State University of New York, (SUNY) College of Optometry, included...
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8.6KClinicalWhat Myopia Management Is and What It Is Not
July 1, 2020 By Debbie Jones, BSc, FCOptom, FAAO Almost without exception, a paper or article written about myopia starts with the...
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8.6KProducts & ServicesThe Gold Standard: Monitoring Myopia Progression Via Measuring Axial Length
June 11, 2020 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO Chief Medical Editor, Review of Myopia Management Myopia is a refractive condition caused...
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11.1KClinicalMyopic Maculopathy: What Is It and How Is It Treated?
June 8, 2020 By Xiaoying Zhu, OD, PhD, MD, MS, FAAO Myopia is currently a major public health concern because of its...
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13.7KClinicalReal World Myopia Management: When and How to Change Treatments
June 1, 2020 By Thomas Aller, OD, FBCLA As the prevalence of myopia grows throughout the world, the onset moves to younger...
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8.1KClinicalMyopia Management in the Era of COVID-19
June 1, 2020 By Melanie Frogozo, OD In late 2019 a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and its associated disease COVID-19, emerged in China...
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9.8KClinicalDoes My Child Need Treatment for Myopia Progression?
June 1, 2020 By Sally M. Dillehay, OD, EdD, FAAO As more information is released into the lay press about myopia1 and...
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3.9KPractice ManagementCaring for the Apprehensive Patient
Sponsored content May 25, 2020 By Roxanne Achong-Coan, OD, FAAO, FIAOMC, FSLS Starting a myopia management regimen is often stressful for children...
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9.0KClinicalManaging Accommodative Response with Multifocal Soft Contact Lenses and Orthokeratology
May 1, 2020 By Krupa Philip, B. Optom, PhD, and Padmaja Sankaridurg, B.Opt, MIP, PhD Brien Holden Vision Institute Optical strategies such...
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4.9KPatient CommunicationExplaining “Off Label” to Parents
Balance the risks of using an off-label treatment with the eye health consequences of no treatment at all.
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7.8KFinancialMy Philosophy on Myopia Management
May 1, 2020 By Jack L. Schaeffer, OD, FAAO In my optometric career, I have always believed in differentiating my practice by...
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10.2KClinicalOne Drop into Each Eye at Bedtime: What Could be Simpler?
May 1, 2020 By Laura Kirkeby, CO The use of atropine has been known to slow the progression of myopia for many...
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25.5KClinicalNovel DOT Lenses from SightGlass Vision Show Great Promise to Fight Myopia
April 21, 2020 By Joe Rappon, OD, MS, FAAO Jay Neitz, PhD Maureen Neitz, PhD Spectacles have been the mainstay modality for...
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9.4KProducts & ServicesPrioritize Your Eyes in the Time of COVID-19
Sponsored content April 21, 2020 By Carol Alexander, OD, FAAO Head, North America Professional Relations, Johnson & Johnson Vision It’s hard to...
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11.9KImplementationSafely Seeing Patients in the Face of COVID-19
April 20, 2020 By Robert Burke When COVID-19 forced the closing in March of the Pennsylvania practice where he works, James Deom,...
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17.8KClinicalGrappling with Children’s Screen Time During the COVID-19 Outbreak
April 6, 2020 By Joshua Foreman, PhD Mohamed Dirani, PhD, MBA, GAICD Thanveer Ali, BSocSci (Hons) The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create...
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5.1KProducts & ServicesWhy Eye Care Professionals Must Consider a Personalized Approach to Myopia Management
Sponsored content April 1, 2020 By Shalu Pal, OD, FAAO, FSLS, FBCLA In preparation for treating myopia, optometrists study what causes the...
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9.9KClinicalStrategies to Attempt to Delay the Onset of Juvenile Progressive Myopia
April 1, 2020 By Xiangui He, MD, PhD Myopia, characterized by onset and rapid progression in childhood, is already a global health...
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4.7KProducts & ServicesParents Will Act When You Teach Them the ‘Why’ of Myopia Management
Sponsored content March 24, 2020 By Jennifer Palombi, OD, FAAO It’s not enough to diagnose myopia in a young patient. Eye care...
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Recommendations for Tapering Long-term Use of Topical Low-dose Atropine
There are two strategies to consider for stopping atropine treatment.
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6.3KFinancialMyopia Management is Not as Expensive as You Might Think
March 1, 2020 By Nadine Humen Forché, OD, MS, FAAO We’ve all seen the barrage of articles and information about the myopia...