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TFOS DEWS III management report 2: A new era in evidence-based dry eye care

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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