Fundamentals of binocular vision: Health and safety in optical practice
Professor Charlotte Codina explores the fundamentals of binocular single vision through the lens of the three grades originally proposed by Claud Worth, and those tests that investigate simultaneous p...
Environmental factors and eye health: A modern day ocular problem?
Dr Sunni Patel explores the influence of environmental factors on eye health...
BCLA CLEAR Presbyopia 8: Management with corneal techniques
Dr Neema Ghorbani-Mojarrad and Professor Jennifer P Craig provide an overview of the corneal management approaches for presbyopia. The last article in a series that captures the clinically relevant co...
The ocular signs of neurofibromatosis 1
Optometrist Monica Singh, a volunteer at the Childhood Tumour Trust, outlines the importance of recognising the ocular signs of the rare genetic condition neurofibromatosis 1...
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...