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Improving practice communication 6: What makes a good fitting frame?

Improving practice communication 6: What makes a good fitting frame?

Fiona Anderson discusses the importance of understanding facial anthropometry and frame measurements to select the optimum fitting ophthalmic frame...

Keratoconus classification

Keratoconus classification

Dr Amit N Jinabhai takes readers on a deep dive into the systems used to classify keratoconus...

The ocular surface in digital eye strain

The ocular surface in digital eye strain

Dr Andrew Pucker summarises how impact on the ocular surface forms a key component of digital eye strain and offers simple, practical advice on how symptoms may be mitigated...

Shaken baby syndrome: Abusive head trauma

Shaken baby syndrome: Abusive head trauma

Claire McDonnell looks at the controversy around shaken baby syndrome, now known as retinodural haemorrhage of infancy. This article describes differential diagnoses for retinal haemorrhages in infant...

Optometric practice: The natural home of dry eye – part 4

Optometric practice: The natural home of dry eye – part 4

In this fourth article Andrew Price considers how dry eye drops have developed to support the complex nature of the tear film. The historic perspectives and advancements in dry eye treatment as well a...

Nocturnal dry eye disease

Nocturnal dry eye disease

Optometrists Claire McDonnell and Valentina Ivancic describe the less frequently discussed case of nocturnal dry eye...

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