Image provided by Chris Boyle, Specsavers ManagementNo treatment is known to prevent cerulean cataracts, but frequent evaluations and cataract surgery are typically required to prevent amblyopia as the opacities progress. More DRP images
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Satvinder Soomal and Specsavers go way back. Specsavers’ head of enhanced optical services for the Midlands joined the Walsall store as a 15-year-old on work experience. An optical assistant at 16, he went on to be a contact lens | more
From assistant to Contact Lens Optician
Gina Tye, 34, from Nottingham, was part of the first group to take the ‘fast-track’ career development from Level 4 BTEC in ophthalmic dispensing (Cert 4) to becoming a dispensing optician (DO), before then qualifying as | more
Optometry case study – Flashes and floaters: posterior MECS
Three flashes and floaters case studies based on feedback from eye hospitals’ department referrals. Compiled by Mike Horler, Head of EOS and specialist optometrist in AMD at Sussex Eye Hospital. | more
Dispensing case study – Dispensing for an AMD patient
A 73-year-old retired female is active and enjoys walking, music and reading. She is slight and regularly wears teen frames, with distance ocular centres of 31mm and 30mm. One year prior to presentation, the patient’s VA decreased to R 6/12 and L 6/60 N10, and she was diagnosed with wet AMD. | more
Optometry case study – Normal-tension glaucoma
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PAC 2018: Challenging cases in cataract and glaucoma eye care
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Optometry case study – Normal-tension glaucoma (NTG)
Diagnosis and management of normal tension glaucoma in a female with family history of glaucoma. | more
Dispensing case study – Prescription analysis: Case #1
This case was among a series presented by Miranda Richardson FBDO, Assistant Director of Professional Examinations for the Association of British Dispensing Opticians, for a peer discussion. | more
Optometry case study – OCT clinical indicators for functional testing – Case #4
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