DryEyeShop Blog

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...

What is GSLS and why I am I here? GSLS is the Global Specialty Lens Symposium... all about specialty contacts, and scleral lenses visibly dominate the agenda when it comes to specialty contacts these days.  I'm here for a few reasons: To unchain myself from my desk and phone for some sanity time. To see optometrists that I haven't seen in a long time or have never met at all and only know online! To learn as much as I can from attending classes & talks... everything from new technology developments to insurance coverage for lenses. To talk to manufacturers, learn about the...

Tap water should never be used on any contact lenses, including scleral lenses. Here's why this is so important.

January 9, 2019... Dry Eye Shop... Poulsbo, Washington. I'm on the phone with a customer. They need to upgrade their shipping method so that they'll get the package faster. Only, it's already been processed, packed, and is currently on its way out the door along with many others the post office guy just arrived to pick up. Brent rushes out, grabs the package from the postal worker, changes the shipping method, voids the label, prints out a new one, slaps it on the package and gets it into the postal vehicle, all before they can put it in gear and rive...