Specialty Contact Lenses

• Presents evidence-based clinical guidance on the selection and fitting of specialty contact lenses, including scleral lenses, bandage contact lenses, customized and extended wear soft contact lenses, corneal lenses, hybrid lenses, tinted lenses, and more.
• Covers a wide range of eye disorders and how to manage them using specialty lenses, including corneal disorders, ocular surface diseases, low vision, binocular vision, aberration control, drug delivery, myopia, and presbyopia.
• Features high-quality figures throughout illustrating specialty lens design and application for various disorders and settings.
• Covers the latest information on emerging technologies such as smart contact lenses, optical sensing technologies, drug delivery, and contact lens enhancements.
• Includes practical guidance and considerations for building and managing a specialty contact lens practice, with information on billing and coding, social media, telemedicine, and marketing.
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

Section 1: Introduction to Specialty Contact Lenses

1. Basic Anatomy and Physiology of the Ocular Surface Tissues

2. Definition and Classification of Specialty Contact Lenses

3. Hygiene, Contact Lens Care, and Case Contamination

4. Digital Imaging

5. Diagnostic Technology for the Specialty Contact Lens Practice

6. Introduction to Therapeutic and Rehabilitative Contact Lenses

7. Hydrogel & Silicone Hydrogel

8. Soft Contact Lens: Customized and Extended Wear

9. Rigid Contact Lenses

10. Scleral Lenses

11. Hybrid Contact Lenses

12. Multifocal Contact Lens for Presbyopia

13. Bandage Contact Lenses

14. Prosthetic and Therapeutic Tinted Contact Lenses

15. Combination of Contact Lenses with Medical and Drug Therapies

16. Introduction to Myopia

17. Preliminary Myopia Evaluation and Binocular Vision

18. Myopia Control and Treatment Methods: Spectacles, Specialty Contact Lenses, and Environmental Factors

19. Pediatric Contact Lenses

20. Considerations for Geriatric Populations

21. High-order Aberration Correction

22. Electrochemical or Optical Sensing Technologies and Future Applications of Contact Lenses

23. Contact Lens Enhancement

24. Building and Maintaining a Specialty Contact Lens Practice

25. Telemedicine