Contact lenses: Introducing aloe vera
Elena Ruiz introduces a multipurpose solution for conventional and silicone hydrogel materials which includes aloe vera as an anti-irritant
Contact Lenses
Contact lens moulds
Making contact lens moulds – how do they do it?
Optician speaks to Nigel Flowers about the process and the importance of ...
Hybrid lenses review
Hybrid lenses: The best of both worlds?
Drop out from contact lens wear continues to be a problem so everything that ...
Interview: Keith Tempany
Interview: Keith Tempany, BCLA president
Catching up with Optician at the BCLA’s flagship Visionaries event in London ...
All roads lead to success
Awards 2017: All roads lead to success
Dividing her time between three practices, mobile contact lens practitioner ...
Celebrating the stars
Optician Awards 2018: Celebrating the stars
Winning an Optician Award is the highlight of many optical careers. The race is ...
In focus: Halloween CLs
In focus: Halloween contact lenses still missing fear factor
This Halloween cosmetic contact lenses again ghosted their way onto market ...
Contact lens prescribing
The trends in UK contact lens prescribing 2017
Now in its 22nd year, Professor Philip Morgan reports on the 2017 Eurolens ...
More lenses on more eyes
Getting more lenses on more eyes
What can contact lens educators do to help increase the number of contact ...
Optician Awards 2017: Finely tuned customer care
Finely tuned customer care
Shortlisted in two categories, Hammond and Dummer took home the Contact Lens Patient Engagement Optician Awards, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson. Joe Ayling visits the Milton Keynes practice
Interview: George Sarrouf, founder mark’ennovy
Interview: George Sarrouf
Bespoke contact lens manufacturer mark’ennovy celebrated its 20th anniversary in May this year. Jo Gallacher visited the company’s headquarters in Madrid to talk with founder George Sarrouf
Optician Awards 2017: Timing is key to success
Timing is key to success
Optician Award winning contact lenses are often related and so it proved for the multifocal variant of Alcon’s Dailies Total1 lens
In focus: Is campaigning enough for compliance?
Is campaigning enough?
The General Optical Council discussed the impact of its ‘Love Your Lenses’ contact lens awareness campaign during a quarterly meeting at its 10 Old Bailey headquarters. Joe Ayling reports
Looking at labs: Spanish ‘made to measure’ firm eyes global expansion
An eye on global expansion
With a brand new fleet of robots in the mark’ennovy lab, the contact lens manufacturer is ready to take on new markets overseas. Jo Gallacher reports
BCLA: Science, celebrations .... and showcasing the latest products
BCLA: Science and celebrations
The 40th anniversary of the BCLA conference and exhibition saw contact lens luminaries and practitioners from around the world come together to shape the future of the sector. Optician reports from the exhibition
Interactive CET feedback: Contact lens dropout
Contact lens dropout
Our interactive CET on contact lens droput (Optician 2 June) was designed to encourage discussion of how to predict possible causes and to consider pre-emptive measures to minimise the risk of it happening. Bill Harvey discusses your responses
In focus: 27 reasons for contact lens aftercare
In focus: CL aftercare
An alarming account this week of a 67-year-old patient who arrived for cataract surgery with a total of 27 contact lenses still in her eye, raises new questions about patient aftercare and compliance. Joe Ayling reports
Tried and tested: Acuvue Vita
Tried and tested: Acuvue Vita
Vita is comfortable and on first wear is hardly perceptible
Event report: A tour de Force
Event report: A tour de Force
Reaching the final of the CooperVision Force Student of the Year competition can mean a major leap forward towards a career in research. Optician reports on the 2017 final, held at the company’s Centre of Innovation in Budapest
Keeping educators on top of their game
On top of their game
Communicating with students was on the timetable at a one-day meeting in Liverpool for contact lens educators and there was useful information to apply in practice too. Alison Ewbank reports
