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MGD management can help keep patients with presbyopia in contacts
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NEW YORK – One-third of the population is presbyopic, Mile Brujic, OD, and Dave Kading, OD, FAAO, said, and optometrists have tools with which to preserve vision and improve comfort in contact lens wear.
The practitioners said here at Vision Expo East that the need for vision correction increases as the population ages, but contact lens usage drops after the age of 40.
Mile Brujic
The number one reason presbyopes drop out of contact lens wear is discomfort, they said.
Kading discussed how he has eliminated the Schirmer’s test in his practice and replaced it with phenol red thread, which takes only 15 seconds.
The speakers recommend a dry eye questionnaire, which can be found online. If the patient scores over 8, they have severe dry eye.
By using a questionnaire, Kading explained, it quantifies exactly how the patient’s eyes feel.
“The numbers help me understand whether my treatment is really working for the patient,” Kading said. – by Abigail Sutton