TFOS DEWS III management report 2: A new era in evidence-based dry eye care
Sarah Farrant reviews the latest research into dry eye from the third Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society Dry Eye Workshop Management and Therapy Report...
OCT masterclass 7: OCT, dry and wet AMD
The past articles have looked at OCT interpretation, OCT and glaucoma and OCT-A. In this article, we shall explore in more depth the role that OCT plays in the diagnosis and management of both dry and...
Understanding monochromatic aberrations
A great thing about learning optics, is that it can all be explained from first principles. Emma Deighan updates an article she first wrote for Optician nearly 25 years ago, explaining aberrations fro...
Frailty and visual impairment
Cirta Tooth introduces the concept of frailty in the context of managing patients with vision impairment, including some case scenarios from her clinical practice...
Sustainability in optical practice 1: A professional imperative for the future
Following the recent success of Optician’s Eyes on Sustainability conference Peter Black discusses what optical practices can do to help the world get to net zero and work towards the United Nations’ ...
Optometric practice: The natural home of dry eye 7
In this penultimate chapter (and the next final installment) of this series Andrew Price concludes that indeed optometric practice can, and should, be the place where dry eye is not only diagnosed but...
Why vision errors get worse at night: From pupil dilation to aberrations
Optical engineer Cory Boone breaks down why pupil dilation, aberrations and other factors make it more difficult to see clearly at night, particularly while driving...
The evolution of AI and its increasing use in eye care
Jason Higginbotham investigates the ways AI has developed and the innovations it has brought to the treatment of ocular conditions...
Optometric practice: The natural home of dry eye – part 6
This sixth article by Andrew Price, continues to look beyond the use of dry eye drops alone, at therapy patients can carry out themselves, under the title ‘home treatments’...
TFOS DEWS III - Diagnostic methodology: Management and therapy report
Sarah Farrant reviews the latest research into dry eye from the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society Dry Eye Workshop, TFOS DEWS III Management and Therapy Report1 published in June 2025...
BCLA CLEAR Presbyopia 7: Mechanism and optics
Dr Sayantan Biswas and Prof Leon N Davies provide an overview of the mechanism and optics associated with presbyopia. The seventh article of a series that captures the clinically relevant conclusions ...
Spherical aberration and the benefits of aspheric lenses for vision correction
Optical engineer Cory Boone breaks down spherical aberration, its effects on vision and ophthalmic lens performance, aspheric lenses for aberration control and the centre of rotation condition in opht...