Analyzing The Economics Of Anterior Segment Disease
Recent research into keratoconus, bacterial conjunctivitis and corneal infiltrative events provides a basis for cost/benefit analysis.
Before You Say Goodbye
Through exit interviews, departing employees can tell you how to hang on to those who remain.
Contact Lens Focus
The msd Mini-Scleral Design lens, from Blanchard Contacts.
CXL: Strengthening The Ties That Bind
Now in FDA trials, corneal collagen cross-linking has been shown to slow the progression of keratoconus and post-LASIK corneal ectasia in uropean studies.
Diagnose And Manage Dementia’s Visual Dimensions
Patients with Alzheimer’s or arkinson’s disease may present with visual processing complaints that predate significant cerebral neurodegeneration.
End Aberration Aggravation
Enable higher-order aberration patients to achieve optimum vision.
Fix This Practice
Prevent out-of-control staff.
Instrument Focus
The Diopsys Neuro Optic Vision Assessment (NOVA)-Visual Evoked Potentials (VEP) Vision Testing System, from Diopsys Inc.
Lessons Learned
I hired some real Lulus.
Nutrition
Omega-3 fatty acids 101.
Practice Pulse
ASCRS Establishes Integrated Eyecare Model Task Force; Ranibizumab and Bevacizumab Effects Similar After Two Years; Management Memo; Research Notes; Sixty-Nine Year-Old Graduates Optometry School.
Reflections
Answering a call.
Research In Practice
Meibomian gland morphology.
Securing The Contact Lens Sale
Five sure-fire tips to get your patients to purchase from you rather than a retailer.
Sizing Up Specsavers
Here’s an inside look at one of the world’s fastest growing retail practices — and its impact on optometry.
Strategy & Innovation
My favorite four systems.
The Stand-Alone Visioncare Debate
With the debate reaching a critical stage, what, exactly, do both sides propose?
View From The Top
Barking up the same tree.
Viewpoint
A heads up on concussions.
Building a Successful Practice That Endures
Panelists discuss how they view success and the goals and metrics they feel are most important to continued practice growth.
Excellence Comes From Experience
Don't follow in the footsteps of others. Learn from their mistakes.
By Bob Levoy, O.D
Happy Patients: The Foundation for a Growing Practice
Simply put, happy patients refer others, and referrals are the key to growth. Learn more about this and how you can tap into its power.
Road to Becoming an OptoCrat
How a student's political experiences changed her view of optometry.
By Amber Dunn Vice President, AOSA
How to Build a Robust Patient Base
Panelists share five proven tactics to gain and retain patients for long-term success.
Welcome to Middle Age
An aging GenXer needs bifocals — is this the beginning of the end?
By Dawn Kairys, as
What Are Your Techs Really Doing?
By Dan Beck, OD