Tag: Dr. Jennifer Lyerly

What is the best artifical tear for dry eye? In the quest to find the best artificial tears for relieving dry eyes and enhancing ocular comfort, Refresh brands emerge as a leading choice among eye care professionals.

When a patient comes in and says that their eyes are uncomfortable at the end of the day with their contact lenses, we often think that must mean the lens is dry. But discomfort to a patient can be as driven by eye strain due to a vision clarity issue as it is by dryness or lens awareness. On this podcast episode, we discuss deciphering the patient contact lens experience with Dr. Erin Rueff, Chief of the Cornea and Contact Lens department at the Marshall B. Ketchum University Eye Center. 

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What is your dry eye protocol? What drops do you recommend or prescribe for dry eyes? Do you use OSDI and SPEED dry eye questionnaires, InflammaDry to quantify inflammation, fluorescein staining and tear break up time, Schirmer’s test, and meibomian gland imaging? Learn more about test, REFRESH® DIGITAL, and Restasis.

This podcast is made possible by the support of Allergan, an AbbVie company. Dr. Wruble is a consultant for Allergan. It’s that time of year...

and practice growth—through contact lens fitting. Among all adults ages 55+, 67% use prescription glasses and 38% use reading glasses, but only 6% wear contact lenses. In the same age group, only 4% recall their eye care practitioner having discussed contact lenses as a potential alternative to readers during their last two office visits.

What happens when an aesthetics lash specialist and an optometrist team up to discuss what patients/clients want when it comes to eyelash procedures? Tomorrow...

Dr. Tsang, Dr. Kwan, and Dr. Lyerly all share that a great approach is to talk to parents about the young patients in the practice that have been successful wearing contact lenses. CooperVision has also created great video content on the MiSight® YouTube channel  featuring real patients sharing their contact lens insertion and removal tips. These videos are a useful tool to share with parents so they can see kids as young as 8 are very capable of wearing lenses successfully! And kids seeing other kids that are successful with contact lenses goes a long way.

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the numbers show that there is a definite lag between the number of Americans that have astigmatism and those that wear astigmatism contact lenses. On average 45% of Americans have 0.75 DC or more, but toric contact lenses represent only 27% of soft contact lenses prescribed in the USA.