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Fifth Edition
Edited By
Anthony Phillips, MPhil, FBOA, HD, FAAO, FBCO, FVCO, FCLSA, DCLP, Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders Medical Centre and The Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
Lynne Speedwell, BSc, MSc(Health Psych), DCLP, FAAO, Department of Ophthalmology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK; Optometry Department, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
Description
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Completely updated and revised, this
classic text provides a definitive reference work on contact lenses for optometrists, dispensing opticians, ophthalmologists and contact
lens practitioners. An everyday definitive reference work, this classic, beautifully designed text has been reinvented to provide the
modern eye care practitioner with all the essential knowledge that they need in one volume.
Contents
1 The history of contact lenses
2 Anatomy and physiology of the cornea and related structures
3 Contact lens materials
4 Microbiology,
lens care and maintenance
5 Tears and contact lenses
6 Optics
7 Clinical instrumentation in contact lens practice
8 Assessment
of patient suitability for contact lenses
9 Rigid gas permeable corneal lens fitting
10 Soft contact lens fitting
11 Patient
management
12 Toric contact lens fitting
13 Toric Extended and continuous wear lenses
14 Bifocal and multifocal contact lenses
15
Sclerals
16 Lens checking: soft and rigid
17 After-care
18 Medical aspects of contact lenses, diagnosis and treatment
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Orthokeratology
20 Keratoconus
21 High prescriptions
22 Post-keratoplasty contact lens fitting
23 Post-refractive surgery
24
Paediatric contact lenses
25 Cosmetic and prosthetic contact lenses
26 Contact lenses in other abnormal ocular conditions
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Contact lens manufacturing
28 Modification procedures
29 Special types of contact lenses and their uses
30 Contact lens
correction and myopia progression
31 Contact lens standards
32 Legal issues and contact lenses
33 Setting up a research
project
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Hardbound, 680 pages, publication date: SEP-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8818-5
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8818-1
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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