The Contact Lens Manual
A Practical Guide to Fitting
- 4th Edition - July 8, 2010
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Authors: Andrew Gasson, Judith A. Morris
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 7 5 9 0 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 4 6 0 2 - 5
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 relia… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe 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.
Contact lens practitioners, optometrists and optometry students
- Cover
- Title Page
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Common abbreviations in contact lens practice
- Table of Contents
- SECTION ONE: Background
- Chapter 1: Background
- Chapter 2: Instrumentation
- Chapter 3: Record keeping
- Chapter 4: Consulting room procedures and equipment
- Chapter 5: Preliminary considerations and examination
- Chapter 6: The tear film and dry eyes
- Chapter 7: Lens types and materials
- SECTION TWO: Rigid gas-permeable lens fitting
- Chapter 8: Principles of rigid lens design
- Chapter 9: Development of rigid lens design
- Chapter 10: Rigid lens selection and fitting
- Chapter 11: Fluorescein patterns and fitting
- Chapter 12: Aspheric lenses
- Chapter 13: Rigid lens specification and verification
- Chapter 14: Orthokeratology and reverse geometry lenses
- SECTION THREE: Hydrogel and silicone hydrogel fitting
- Chapter 15: Soft lens fitting and design
- Chapter 16: Soft lens fitting characteristics
- Chapter 17: Other soft lens fitting considerations
- Chapter 18: Disposable lenses and frequent (planned) replacement
- Chapter 19: Silicone hydrogels
- Chapter 20: Soft lens specification and verification
- Chapter 21: Extended wear
- SECTION FOUR: Complex lenses
- Chapter 22: Toric rigid lenses
- Chapter 23: Toric soft lenses
- Chapter 24: Lenses for presbyopia
- Chapter 25: Special lens features and applications
- SECTION FIVE: Management
- Chapter 26: Care systems
- Chapter 27: Lens collection and patient instruction
- Chapter 28: Aftercare
- Chapter 29: Aftercare complications
- Chapter 30: Additional aftercare procedures
- SECTION SIX: Children and therapeutic lenses
- Chapter 31: Contact lenses and children
- Chapter 32: Therapeutic and complex lens designs
- Appendix 1
- Useful contact lens internet sites
- Glossary
- Index
- Edition: 4
- Published: July 8, 2010
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- No. of pages: 448
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780750675901
- eBook ISBN: 9780702046025
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Andrew Gasson
Affiliations and expertise
Contact Lens Practitioner, London, UKJM
Judith A. Morris
Affiliations and expertise
Director of Contact Lens Teaching, City University, London, and Head of Contact Lenses, Institute of Optometry, London, UK