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Blue Light Blocking Lenses: ECPs Helping Cut Through the Clutter

Patient Education

By Sara Frye, OD, MPH, FAAO

We are surrounded by electromagnetic waves of all sorts on a daily basis. We characterize them based on their wavelength, from shorter gamma rays and ...

5 Ways to Get Your Masked Up Communication Back on Track with Your Patients

Practice Management

By Gerard Johnson, M.S.

First, let me start by saying that like many of you, I hate wearing face masks. Any given day my team and I will spend about 8 hours in a mask. Howeve ...

Johnson & Johnson Vision Expands Access to Myopia Management

News

By Eric Wurtenberg

Johnson & Johnson Vision recently announced FDA approval for an expanded range of ACUVUE Abiliti Overnight Therapeutic Lenses for Myopia Managemen ...

How to Build Relationships to Establish Lifelong Patients in Your Practice

Patient Engagement

By Kate Gettinger, OD

Bedside manner means a lot more to patients than you may think. As a low vision specialist, I often find myself in a secondary or tertiary position wi ...

The PD Request: Turning Awkward Encounters into Lifetime Patient Value

Practice Management

By Kate Gettinger, OD

Over time, I’ve come to notice a certain situation repeating itself within my office. In fact, it has occurred frequently enough that I have com ...

Breaking Bad News to Eyecare Patients: 7 Tips to Improve Your Delivery

Patient Education

By Kate Gettinger, OD

As the rates of ocular disease and visual impairment are projected to rise dramatically over the next several decades, many optometrists may find them ...

Back to School: Opportunity for Sales & Community Enrichment

Practice Management

By Mary Hollis Stuck

It’s no surprise that when summer wraps up, there is an influx of calls from frantic parents needing their children to have an eye exam before t ...

How to Get the Greatest Return From Your Dry Eye Patients

Billing & Collections

By Mary Hollis Stuck

Dry Eye Syndrome is an incredibly common problem among patients of all ages. Doctors regularly treat and prescribe patients complaining of a burning, ...

How to Turn Around Non-Compliance Contact Lens Wearers into Daily Disposable Contact Lenses Believers

Patient Education

By Kate Gettinger, OD

Anyone practicing optometry has undoubtedly run into a patient who abuses their contact lenses by overwearing them. Some patients will come straight o ...

Patient Education Pays Dividends

Patient Engagement

By Practice Growth

With countless advances in technology and communication in the past quarter-century, information consumption has increased rapidly and exponentially. ...