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Refractive Surgeries Review
History of vision surgeries Utilizing a surgical procedure to alter structures within and around the eye to help optimize vision dates back to between 1792 and 1750 BCE. The first type of refractive surgery, which was mentioned in the...
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Pediatric Optometry: Erase the Stigma and Participate in the Future
An Optometry Student's Guide to Pediatric Optometry "Pediatric optometrists have a difficult time because of how hard it is to test a child for glasses." "Children are too young to read the letters." "Children...
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Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty: A Student Guide
A patient sits down in your chair being followed for possible glaucoma. You have determined they have a progressing C/D ratio and, after running an OCT and visual field, your attending and you decide that they have a thinning RNFL and...
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OCT-A: How, when, and why?
Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography, also known as OCT-A, is a fairly new technology that allows doctors to better assess retinal and choroidal vascular disease and blood flow. OCT-A can be used to assess structural changes in...
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Crash Course on Dry Eye Syndrome Part 2: Treatment and Management
Dry eye is constantly in the news and the way we treat it is always changing. The publication of the 2017 Report of the TFOS International Dry Eye Workshop II (more commonly known as the TFOS DEWS II) provides evidence-based treatment and...