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Contact Lens Focus
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Dry Eye
How important is water?
Fix this practice
How to Handle Growing Pains
How to Prescribe High-Prescription Spectacles
Consider these steps to satisfy patients who require high-prescription correction
In-Office Lab Profitability
These three steps can enable you to achieve in-office optical lab success
Instrumental Focus
The TearLab Osmolarity System, from TearLab Corporation
Inventory Management Is as Easy as ABC
Use a system that maximizes both working capital and customer satisfaction
Is It a Nevus or Melanoma?
You can differentiate these extremely similar choroidal lesions. Here's how.
Lab Selection: Understanding Cost Vs. Value
Answer eight questions to ensure that you are investing in the right optical lab
Lessons Learned
He remembered too late
Letters
Readers Voice Their Opinions
Marketing
Marketing begins with the details
O.D. to O.D.
Success means more than drawing a regular paycheck
By Walter D. West, O.D., F.A.A.O., Chief
Practice Pulse
AOA Income from Optometry Report; EyeSite; Management Memo; O.D. Notebook; and Practice Management/Contact Lens Guru Remembered
Reflections
A second chance
Spectacle Focus
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Stem Cell Research and the Eye
Dry AMD and Stargardt’s targeted by new trials. Here’s what you and patients should know.
Tech Time
How do you run a better business?
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Viewpoint
What’s in your report card?
What's New
For Your Patients and Practice
Are Medications the Culprit?
Many patients are taking systemic medications that cause or exacerbate dry eye. Here's what you need to know.
By William Townsend, OD, FAAO
Exploring Rx Dry Eye Treatments
It's achieving your career goals and objectives. Use these three suggestions to help you get started.
By Michael Mayers, OD, FAAO
Minimizing Dry Eye Post-Surgery
Clear up dry eye before surgery to limit problems postoperatively, achieve the desired visual outcome and ensure patients are satisfied
By Douglas K. Devries, OD
Pinning Down Dry Eye
Take a 10-step approach to help ensure a complete diagnosis
By Kelly K. Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD
Staging Meibomian Gland Disease
The MGD Workshop has given us an objective means to evaluate our patients
By Kelly K. Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD