Interviews with Lyndon Jones, BSc, PhD, DSc, FCAHS, FCOptom, DipCLP, DipOrth, FAAO, FIACLE, FBCLA Optometry Instances’ Emily Kaiser will talk about key takeaways from her presentation titled “Contact lens expertise” throughout EyeCon 2022 held on Marco Island, Flordida.
This transcript has been edited for readability:
Kayseri:
Whats up, I am Emily Kaiser from Optometry Instances. To debate his presentation on contact lens expertise at EyeCon 2022 in Marco Island, Florida, Dr. I am sitting with Lyndon Jones. Welcome Dr. Jones, thanks for taking the time to speak to us.
Jones:
You’re very welcome.
Kayseri:
May you give a short details about your presentation?
Jones:
I actually can, sure. Mainly my background is that this: I’m concerned about contact lens analysis. What I feel I’ll share with individuals who come to speak are actually two varieties.
The primary is principally to have a look at why lots of our contact lens sufferers complain of contact lens discomfort when carrying them. So I am going to have a look at the historical past behind this and the numbers on why individuals fail. After which how can we as clinicians resolve these issues and what nice alternatives now contact lens firms are giving us with the applied sciences they supply. This would be the first half of the discuss, very sensible, principally very a lot about decreasing contact lens discomfort.
Then the second a part of my discuss is about extra futuristic ideas of find out how to use contact lenses, they’re probably not simply concerning the typical approach we use to appropriate imaginative and prescient. And it should be about how we are able to use contact lenses sooner or later to discover systemic ailments, ocular ailments, the potential for contact lenses to operate as drug supply units – i.e. to deal with quite a lot of ailments, after which the final level is how we are able to probably use contact lenses for academic views.
It appears actually futuristic and I feel the place the way forward for contact lenses is headed.
Kayseri:
It sounds actually good. How ought to clinicians reply to this data?
Jones:
There are principally two elements. The primary can be to resolve right now’s issues. When sufferers come to your clinic right now and have issues with the consolation of their lenses, how will we now have obtainable strategies to handle this. And the second factor is that tomorrow can have extra thrilling choices. So what will we search for in firms that can present us over the following 5 to 10 years?
Kayseri:
So what do you hope that optometrist will get out of your discuss?
Jones:
I hope they take away from the truth that there are nice alternatives for contact lenses right now and tomorrow. Contact lenses have been round for a very long time, however there are nonetheless nice alternatives for practitioners to principally use it to enhance and make your apply higher.
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