Optometrist Seeing Red
Written by: Juanne Lee Pui Xin It is not just a matter of getting spectacles done. Your vision may be good, but is your eye health in tip-top condition? History …
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Traditional Chinese Medicine in Dry Eye Syndrome
Pat Lim,1, Wanwen Lan,4,6 Wei Qi Ping,2 Louis Tong.3,4,5,6 Affiliations: Singapore Chung Hwa Medical Institution, Singapore Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, China Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore Singapore Eye Research …
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Myopia Control & Specialty Contact Lens Updates
Recently I’ve attended three different conferences ; one in Vegas USA – GSLS ( Global Specialty Lens Symposium ), one in Shanghai – COOC ( International Congress of Ophthalmology & …
Dry Eye – The Optometrist’s Perspective
Koh Lian Buck, BSc(Hons) Optom UK To the optometrist, Dry Eye Syndrome (DES) is probably the next most common problem we see other than examining refractive errors in patients’ eyes. …
Common and uncommon ocular problem and disorders
Most common and uncommon vision related problems and disorders can be identified without the aid of cutting-edge equipments in the optometric practices. Most of these problems can be managed and …
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Hollenhorst Plaques
Peter G Swann Case Report: A fifty-year old Chinese male reported to our Clinic for a routine eye examination. He complained of poor near vision with his reading glasses. Long …
A Case Of Decompensated Phoria
Binocular diplopia is a complex condition involving the extra-ocular muscles and the oculo-motor(CNlll), trochlear (CNlV) and abducens (CNVl) cranial nerves. It has a variety of aetiologies, may be congenital or …
Oculocardiac, Vasovagal reflexes, and Contact Lens Wear
For an optometrist, nothing is more horrified than his or her first-ever encounter of patient suddenly lost consciousness and collapsed soon after inserted a contact lens on the eye. As …
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ERM – A personal experience
Aetiology and Risk factorsEpiretinal membrane has also been termed as macular pucker, epimacular membrane, preretinal macular fibrosis, surface-wrinkling retinopathy. It is a semi-translucent fibrocellular tissue proliferates on the surface of …
Nutritional Supplementation: AREDS > AREDS2 > Where are we going?
Ivan Y-F Leung1, BSc(Hons)Optom, PhD, FAAO Key Words: AREDS2, lutein, zeaxanthin, beta-carotene, DHA, EPA 1 University of Manchester, Singapore, FSI Optometry Degree Programme, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore; Introduction The Age-Related Eye …
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