Description
Clinical Manual of Contact Lenses addresses a wide variety of clinical topics, including rigid gas-permeable lens design and fitting, soft lens problem solving, astigmatic management, and bifocal correction. It is written so the practitioner can easily locate a topic and information about that topic without having to read an entire chapter. Each chapter concludes with sample cases that reinforce and demonstrate the practical nature of the chapter’s topic. Nomograms and proficiency checklists also summarize and emphasize the important points in the chapters.
The purpose of this book is to help students and practitioners fit, evaluate, and troubleshoot contact lenses, especially specialty contact lens designs. We hope this strictly clinical text will aid in everyday fitting situations and be an easy reference source to answer questions that might arise during the evaluation of a contact lens patient. It is written generically to be current for many years to come.
In this fourth edition of the Clinical Manual of Contact Lenses, we have sought to not only update and revise this manual, but also introduce new chapters on exciting new development in the field of contact lenses. To this extent, the chapter on scleral lenses by renowned experts Drs. Greg DeNaeyer, Jason Jedlicka, and Muriel Schornack is a must-read. Likewise, a new chapter on the contact lens fitting of young people addresses an important area that is certainly expanding, and we are fortunate to have Drs. Jeff Walline, Christine Sindt, and Marjorie Rah authoring it. A much-needed optics chapter with important clinical background information has been added to complement Dr. Joe Benjamin’s other chapter pertaining to optics formulas and problems. Of course, the information pertaining to clinical management in such areas as keratoconus, postsurgical, orthokeratology, presbyopia, extended wear, and correction of astigmatism has been greatly revised and updated ––as much as possible––to be current for the next several years. A very popular chapter in the third edition that was updated for this edition is the one pertaining to the management of contact lens complications by two foremost experts in the field, Drs. Ron Melton and Randall Thomas.
Both of us have been active in the Association of Contact Lens Educators (AOCLE), and we are honored that many educators involved with this organization have assisted with chapters in this text.
Edward S. Bennett, OD, MSEd
Vinita Allee Henry, OD