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Fitting spectacles to children with microtia

Fitting spectacles to children with microtia

Dispensing optician Steve Golding describes the congenital ear malformation microtia and outlines a number of challenging dispensing cases...

Pre-reg optometrist case files 1: Professionalism in optometric practice

Pre-reg optometrist case files 1: Professionalism in optometric practice

Shamina Asif and Wasim Sarwar, begin a new series focusing on core skills for pre-registration optometrists. A useful resource for optical students and a timely reminder for supervisors and other qual...

Management and outcomes of choroidal melanoma: A case report

Management and outcomes of choroidal melanoma: A case report

Anneka Ali discusses the diagnosis and management of choroidal melanoma including the Moles system of naevus classification, the appropriate referral pathways suggested and the long-term prognosis for...

Introduction to medical retina

Introduction to medical retina

Amy Green introduces medical retina, refreshing anatomy and discussing history and symptoms and the interpretation of OCT images that aid in the identification of common clinical features in medical r...

OCT masterclass 5: OCT and glaucoma

OCT masterclass 5: OCT and glaucoma

In this fifth article Jason Higginbotham explores how OCT can help to diagnose and monitor glaucoma. It discusses how sensitive OCT normative databases can be at detecting glaucoma risk and consider s...

Demystifying dementia 2: Vision as a modifiable risk factor in dementia

Demystifying dementia 2: Vision as a modifiable risk factor in dementia

In this second of her three-part series on dementia, Elaine Grisdale discusses the impact of visual impairment in relation to dementia and vision as a modifiable risk factor for the disease...

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