DryEyeShop Blog — scleral lenses

"Invisible Pain Syndromes: Why scleral lenses do not always work" This was a course presented by Dr Lynette Johns at GSLS yesterday. Some introductory notes from me first... It was standing room only, there were no tables, and I was so squished I couldn't use my laptop to take notes, so all I have is a lot of hastily scribbled notes that are now very hard to read, and I know I need to go find the course outline and make sure I didn't miss anything. For those who don't know me or my background, I want to emphasize that I...

Caveat: Read at your own risk. I am not a doctor. Et cetera. General Session: State of Scleral Lenses The early days of scleral lenses (Lynette Johns) Dr Johns presented quite an interesting history of contact lenses, crediting Tim Bowden's research - and by the way this history is covered in a chapter of the bible, I mean the book on scleral lenses that she and Melissa Barnett have recently published.  She reached all the way back into ancient Egyptian ocular prosthetics made for mummies - since prosthetics are what ultimately what scleral lenses emerged from - then then followed it all through...

My eyes ran out of steam Thursday night before I could make translate & transfer my notes into blog form, so I wrote this up in dribs and drabs between sessions on Friday. On re-reading, I decided this particular session really deserved its own separate post, rather than tacking it onto the end of the last one as planned. Long Term Scleral Lens Management This was the highlight of Thursday (apart from great conversations with great doctors!). Every speaker in this session was speaking directly to things I personally care about a lot :)  Lynette Johns First, Lynette Johns gave an overview of the issues,...

1. Technology and the scleral lens practice Dr Tom Arnold This was a fun session. Dr Arnold was totally unfazed by a series of rolling A/V failures, and entertained us all by lip-syncing to the speaker in another room whose talk was being rather noisily piped into our room for while. Sadly, the other speaker will never know how many of us raised our hands when asked if we have a corneal topographer in our practice. This is the time of day when it's getting really hard to read my notes from nine in the morning and remember what I...