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“I chose the Duette Progressive lens for this patient because I wanted him to have a great first experience with multifocal contact lenses. After the initial two-week adaptation period, he was very comfortable inserting and removing his lenses, found the lenses comfortable, and enjoyed not having to constantly remove his glasses for near and intermediate tasks."
By S. Barry Eiden, OD, FAAO
For many years most practitioners promoted the concept that virtually all patients who suffered from keratoconus would require contact lens correction utilizing rigid corneal lenses.
By Jeffrey Sonsino, O.D., F.A.A.O.
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of UltraHealth contact lens and thousands of patients are now benefitting from the vision, comfort and eye health that UltraHealth offers.
By Jeffrey Sonsino, O.D., F.A.A.O.
It is well established that good tear exchange under a contact lens can help prevent microbial keratitis, CLARE, and lens-induced corneal edema.1-5 It makes sense from a physiologic perspective. If you have stasis under a lens, byproducts from normal corneal metabolism accumulate in the post-lens tear reservoir.
In this webinar, Dr. Jeffrey Sonsino talks about the new UltraHealth Hybrid Contact Lens, and how he uses it as an alternative to GP's and sclerals.
In Oklahoma, Denise Roddy, OD, of Tulsa, is known for her expertise in fitting specialty contact lenses. “Most patients referred to me have failed elsewhere,” Dr. Roddy says of the patients she receives from other corneal specialists including other ODs as well as MDs. Some patients, like one particular retired nurse educator whom Dr. Roddy saw recently, travel more than 100 miles for her care.
“Not only was the comfort of Duette Progressive as good as her soft lenses, but the vision was better than any lens we’d tried in the past.”
Comfort of contact lenses ranks among patients as being almost as important as the quality of the patient's vision while wearing the lens. In this case study, we examined a 59-year-old female who had been wearing soft multi-focal contact lenses for the last 6 years. Click the link below to be taken to the Case Study Results.
“The Duette Progressive lenses are the first lenses that allowed this patient to have satisfactory near vision without utilizing readers. The fitting experience was also easier with this lens than with soft multifocals.”
Dr. Gonzalo Carracedo, Ph.D., et al, performed a study that showed the performance of SynergEyes® ClearKone® as compared to patients' habitual contact lenses.1 Their conclusion was that ClearKone:
"Provides an improvement in visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, and subjective comfort in patients with keratoconus when compared with other contact lens options. However, clinicians must get specific training to fit the lens and be aware of potential adverse events."
The entire article can be found by clicking the link below.
Peg Achenbach, O.D., F.A.A.O.
Vice President of Professional Services
On-K fitting, or alignment fitting, is described as having the radius of curvature of the optical zone of the contact lens equal to the radius of the flattest K reading. This is one of the most straightforward methods of contact lens fitting. The goal in fitting Duette lenses is to have the GP portion parallel to the radius of the cornea, similar to the alignment fitting of traditional GP lenses.