Main description:

The Contact Lens Manual continues to meet the needs of a new generation of optometrists, dispensing opticians, contact lens practitioners and students who require clear and reliable information for fitting a complete range of contact lenses.

The fourth edition of this best-selling classic, now in full colour throughout, provides the most up-to-date guidance in all aspects of today's lenses in a practical and easy to use manual. Featuring new developments in lens types, care regimes, current practices, and electronic access to brand new video footage as well as a range of learning tools, this manual offers a complete package to help readers expand their lens knowledge, improve fitting and optimise patient care.

The authors use a down-to-earth practical approach to distil years of experience into one handy volume.
A bullet point style makes the information easily accessible.
Key information is presented so it can be quickly located.
Practical tips, clinical pearls, helpful advice, and warnings are presented in boxes so readers can see at a glance what to do.

Features updates to all chapters and lens types with a wealth of new information on silicone hydrogels, toric soft lenses, rigid gas-permeable fitting and patient after care.
Presents a new chapter on dry eyes with expert guidance on treatment and practical management advice.
Includes an expanded illustration programme and page design with full colour throughout including colour-coded sections and boxes to highlight key information for easier learning.
Electronic access to brand new video footage of lens and eye care regimes, along with over 100 clinical photographs, images from the book, simulations and calculation tools.

Contents:

Preface

How to use this book

Common Abbreviations

Section 1: Preliminaries

1. Background

2. Instrumentation

3. Record Keeping

4. Consulting room procedures and equipment

5. Preliminary considerations and examination

6. Dry eyes and the tear film

7. Lens types and materials

Section 2: Rigid Gas Permeable Lens Fitting

8. Principles of rigid lens design

9. Development of rigid lens design

10. Rigid lens selection and fitting

11. Fluorescein patterns and fitting

12. Aspheric lenses

13. Rigid lens specification and verification

14. Orthokeratology and reverse geometry lenses

Section 3: Hydrogel and Silicone Hydrogel Fitting

15. Soft lens fitting and design

16. Soft lens fitting characteristics

17. Other soft lens fitting considerations

18. Disposable lenses and frequent (planned) replacement

19. Silicone Hydrogels

20. Soft lens specification and verification

Section 4: Complex Lenses

22. Toric rigid lenses

23. Toric soft lenses

24. Lenses for presbyopia

25. Special lens features and applications

Section 5: Management

26. Care systems

27. Lens collection and patient instruction

28. Aftercare

29. Aftercare Complications

30. Additional Aftercare Procedures

Section 6: Children and Therapeutic Lenses

31. Contact lenses and children

32. Therapeutic and Complex Lens Designs

Glossary of contact lens-related terms

Appendix

Index