Contact Lenses / Edition 6

by Anthony J. Phillips MPhil, FBOA, HD, FAAO, FBCO, FVCO, FCLSA, DCLP, Lynne Speedwell BSc, MSc(Health Psych), DCLP, FAAO

Overview

Completely revised with the latest advances, evidence, and standards needed for everyday practice, Contact Lenses, 6th Edition, remains a definitive work on this multi-faceted topic, ideal for optometrists, dispensing opticians, ophthalmologists, and contact lens practitioners. This classic, superbly designed text is perfectly suited for health care professionals, providing all of the essential knowledge needed in one convenient volume.

• Provides up-to-date, authoritative information on contact lens materials and lens types, treatment in contact lens and tear film complications, and myopia correction and contact lenses for abnormal ocular conditions.
• Discusses current topics such as miniscleral lenses, keratoconus, corneal cross linking, and paediatric, cosmetic and prosthetic contact lenses.
• Includes NEW online access to ExpertConsult, with calculators and simulation programs for scleral lens fitting, sagittal values, soft toric mislocation, front vertex power, orthokeratology and rigid lens design, and more.
• Contains high-quality line diagrams and clinical illustrations to highlight key points in the text.
• Focuses on the evidence behind contact lens practice, enabling you to make informed choices about the care you give to your patients.
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780702071683
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	02/08/2019
Edition description:	6th ed.
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Phillips, Anthony J., MPhil, FBOA, HD, FCOptom (Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide); Speedwell, Lynne, BSc, FCOptom, DCLP, FAAO (Hospital for Sick Children, London)

The contributors represent the specialties of optometry, visual science, and cornea and contact lens research. Most are from universities and eye hospitals in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S., with a few in private practice. Institutions prominently represented include Univ of New South Wales, City Univ London, and Univ of Manchester.

Table of 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
19 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
27 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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Up-to-date, authoritative coverage of every aspect of contact lens practice

Editorial Reviews

4 Stars! from Doody

This is the fourth edition of a book on contact lens practice and it includes chapters from the editors and contributors from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. All of the contributors are among the leaders in the field of contact lens practice. The purpose is to present the latest information on clinical practice regarding contact lenses for vision correction, medical management of ocular conditions, and ocular prostheses. This book achieves its purpose very well. The book is targeted particularly for practitioners in training, but it is also quite relevant and helpful as a reference and resource for those already involved in eye care or contact lens practice. The book offers quality color photographs throughout with numerous helpful tables, graphs, and figures. The style of writing makes for an enjoyable read and the material is comprehensive and focused toward the mission of the book. The organization is clear and logical, most relevant references are included, and the appendixes are helpful. An accompanying CD-ROM provides for the possibility of computer-based exercises in contact lens design. While an added value, the text would not suffer significantly had the CD not been included. This book is useful and highly recommended as one of the most up-to-date contact lens texts currently available.

Christopher Snyder

A joint English/Australian account of every facet of contact lens practice<-->from the history of contact lenses, anatomy and physiology of the cornea, contact lens material, and drugs and solutions and related microbiology, to practical optics and computer design of contact lenses, clinical instrumentation, contact lens fitting, patient management, bifocal and multifocal contact lenses, and contact lenses in abnormal ocular conditions. Features new to the fourth edition include a section on orthokeratology, a comprehensive formula section which can be programmed into scientific calculators and computers, and a CD-ROM which contains a desktop contact lens calculator and programs for lens design, analysis, and selection. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

Reviewer: Brian Marshall, OD (Marshall Eye Care)
Description: This classic book offers a complete and comprehensive guide to contact lenses. It has gotten even better with this latest and long overdue fifth edition, which replaces the 1997 edition. A CD-ROM is included for additional learning experiences.
Purpose: According to the authors, the purpose is to provide eyecare professionals with a definitive and up-to-date reference on contact lenses. It achieves its goal admirably and has now become more of a practical chair side manual then the previous editions.
Audience: This book is indispensable for all practicing optometrists and ophthalmologists. In addition, it should be in every advanced student must-have collection. Well respected clinicians and prominent leaders in the area of contact lenses author the 33 chapters.
Features: This revised edition builds upon previous editions with its solid foundation in basic contact lens education. Its strength, however, is the comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of everything from contact lens solutions and lens designs to special and obscure uses for contact lenses, all in one book. There is some duplication, but overall the organization is straightforward and the book is easy to read and understand. The color photos and diagrams are superb and unmatched in their pedagogic value. The enclosed CD-ROM expands the learning process by offering various design modules and a useful orthokeratology module.
Assessment: Because contact lens technologies change so quickly, this is a wonderful, must-have book for all busy eyecare practitioners. It is written in a beautiful format that makes reading it both a pleasure and a learning experience.

Doody's Review Service

"The impressive quantity and quality of information supplied and written in a format that is readily understood, makes this text an invaluable resource for the understanding and prescribing of contact lenses."

Michael Doyle, Optometrist, Bassendean Optical, Philadelphia, USA



“Contact Lenses is a marvellous book and a pleasure to read….Anyone with the fourth edition of Contact Lenses should seriously consider buying this fifth edition…Think of the changes in contact lens practice in the past 10 years – both daily disposable and silicone hydrogel disposable lenses arrived and are now mainstream; and there have been enormous advances in contact lens designs including multifocal, coloured lenses, keratoconic, scleral and reverse geometry GP lens designs, corneal topography and multipurpose solutions. Furthermore – and this is a major advantage – the fifth edition of Contact Lenses is much more readable and easy to access.

This is a book that all practitioners who fit contact lenses should buy. It is not just a book; it is a celebration of contact lenses.”

Adrian Bruce, Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne and Victorian College of Optometry




“The format, colour and graphics are light years ahead of previous editions, and there has been some necessary trimming of chapters in the fast-moving world of contact lenses.

What I love about this book is the graphics. The chapter on “Anatomy and physiology of the cornea and related structures” (Ruskell and Bergmanson) is equally illuminating and valuable to the experienced practitioner and undergraduate student, largely because of the diagrams and micrographs reinforcing clearly laid out coloured bullet points. All chapters are colour-coded and full of well designed tables for easy reference…This book will be of clinical and academic value to both practitioner and student, and is accompanied with a very good CD-Rom containing extra information on contact lens design and clinical grading scales.”

Grant Watters MScOptom; DipCLP; FCLS is an optometrist who practises in St Heliers Bay, Auckland.


"For the practitioner who wishes to maintain a current reference on the topic, the fifth edition of Contact Lenses is a worthwhile investment. For the instructor seeking a comprehensive text for student use, this edition offers a current, colorful, and lively option well worth consideration."

Peter Bergenske. Optometry and Vision Science:Volume 84(11)November 2007p 1007

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