The Contact Lens Manual continues to meet the needs of a new generation of optometrists, dispensing opticians, contact lens practitioners and students who require clear and reliable information for fitting a complete range of contact lenses.
The fourth edition of this best-selling classic, now in full colour throughout, provides the most up-to-date guidance in all aspects of today's lenses in a practical and easy to use manual. Featuring new developments in lens types, care regimes, current practices, and a bonus CD-ROM with brand new video footage as well as a range of learning tools, this manual offers a complete package to help readers expand their lens knowledge, improve fitting and optimise patient care.
Key Features
The authors use a down-to-earth practical approach to distil years of experience into one handy volume.
A bullet point style makes the information easily accessible.
Key information is presented so it can be quickly located.
Practical tips, clinical pearls, helpful advice, and warnings are presented in boxes so readers can see at a glance what to do.
New to This Edition
- Features updates to all chapters and lens types with a wealth of new information on silicone hydrogels, toric soft lenses, rigid gas-permeable fitting and patient after care.
- Presents a new chapter on dry eyes with expert guidance on treatment and practical management advice.
- Includes an expanded illustration programme and page design with full colour throughout including colour-coded sections and boxes to highlight key information for easier learning.
- Contains a bonus CD-ROM with brand new video footage of lens and eye care regimes, along with over 100 clinical photographs, images from the book, simulations and calculation tools.
Preface to third edition
Preface to first edition
How to use this book
Common Abbreviations
Colour plates
1 Background 1
2 Instrumentation 17
3 Record keeping 31
4 Consulting room procedures and equipment 44
5 Preliminary considerations and examination 56
6 Lens types and materials 78
7 Principles of hard lens design 95
8 Development of hard lens design 107
9 Hard lens selection and fitting 122
10 Fluorescein patterns and fitting 132
11 Aspheric lenses 143
12 Hard lens specification and verification 152
13 Refitting PMMA wearers 160
14 Orthokeratology and reverse geometry lenses 167
15 Scleral lens fitting 187
16 Soft lens fitting and design 198
17 Other soft lens fitting considerations 213
18 Soft lens fitting characteristics 225
19 Disposable lenses and frequent (planned) replacement 229
20 Silicone hydrogels 240
21 Soft lens specification and verification 248
22 Extended wear 255
23 Toric hard lenses 270
24 Toric soft lenses 282
25 Lenses for presbyopia 298
26 Special lens features and applications 318
27 Care systems 329
28 Lens collection and patient instruction 345
29 Aftercare 352
30 Supplementary aftercare 372
31 Contact lenses and children 393
32 Therapeutic fitting 398
Glossary of contact lens-related terms 421
Appendix 432
Index 435
Multimedia CD-ROM single user license agreement 449
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