Optics News

LAS VEGAS – Blair Wong, an optician from Boston, presents highlights from the PBS Documentary, Sight: The Story of Vision.

Significant improvements were found in uncorrected distance visual acuity, manifest sphere and manifest refraction spherical equivalent at all visits after photorefractive intrastromal corneal crosslinking for the treatment of myopic refractive errors.

The World Council of Optometry and the Vision Impact Institute announced during the World Congress of Optometry in Hyderabad their endorsement of the Essilor and Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile partnership to promote the role of vision as a key pillar of road safety on a global scale through awareness-building campaigns.

When patients are fit in multifocal contact lenses, they are typically educated that gaining near vision means giving up some of their quality of vision, as incoming light gets split between distance and near. Similarly, early multifocal IOLs also split light, which resulted in trade-offs in visual quality.

“At Issue” asked a panel: Are multifocal contact lenses effective in managing myopia progression, and, as a result, are daily disposable multifocal lenses destined to become the contact lens of choice for children?

Surface ablation with the addition of mitomycin C is a safe and effective enhancement method after myopic SMILE, according to a study.

The eye care community has seen much activity in the contact lens arena over the past week.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, in a report released in JAMA Monday, recommended that clinicians screen children for amblyopia or its risk factors at least once while the child is between 3 and 5 years of age, a reaffirmation of findings the group released in 2011.

The trifocal AcrySof IQ PanOptix and the extended-range-of vision Tecnis Symfony, from Alcon and Abbott, respectively, are both good options for patients, with a slight advantage of trifocality for near vision tasks. However, the perception of visual side effects with both lenses should be considered when counseling patients, according to a study.

Patients with childhood binocular disorders may be able to achieve stereopsis with intervention in adulthood, according to researchers in Optometry & Vision Science.