Sites for Eye Care Professionals
Sites for Patient Education
Journals
Contact Lens Companies SITES FOR EYE CARE PROFESSIONALS:
American Optometric Association's Optometric Clinical
Care Guideline, Care of the Contact Lens Patient
The optometric guideline for caring for a patient with contact lenses. This is a pdf file and uses Acrobat reader.
AmericanOptometric Association's Guidelines for the Use of Contact Lenses in IndustrialEnvironments
The AOA's stance on contact lenses used by industrial workers, writtenby Dr. Anthony Cullen.
Association of Optometric Contact LensEducators
This site includes a living library for educators and a consumer informationlinks under Public Guests.
Bausch& Lomb Vision Science Reference Database
This is a searchable contact lens database of article citations goingback to the mid-1980s.
British Contact Lens Association
This site contains information from the UK on contact lenses, includingmanufacturers links and searching of a contact lens library.
Contact Lens Association of Opthalmologists
The CLAO site includes information about their journal, membership,products and services.
Contact Lens Manufacturers Association
The CLMA site has information for wearers as well as eye care professionals.
Contact Lens Society of America
This is a professional society with membership information andlinks
Cornea and ContactLens Web Page by Heidi Wagner
This site has information from 2 contact lens courses plus cornea andcontact lens websites.
International Association of ContactLens Educators
An international association with education models, news and membershipinformation.
Rigid Gas Permeable Lens Institute
A site with everything about GP lenses including articles, a lens database,a directory of labs events, and online symposia.
SITES FOR PATIENT EDUCATION:
About.com -- Contact Lenses
Everything about contact lenses on the about.com site with over 200links
All AboutVision: Contact Lenses
A consumer guide with an overview of contact lens topics includingdisposables, extended wear, gas permeable, bifocal, colored, u-v blocking,orthokeratology. It includes a find an eye doctor and ask the eyedoctor sections.
AmericanOptometric Association -- Contact Lenses
This site includes facts, stats, types, monovision, cost and do's anddon'ts.
Contact Lens Council
This site gives information about your eyes and contact lenses includinga video on how to insert a contact lens.
Keepingan Eye on Contact Lenses
US Food and Drug Administration article that discusses different typesof contact lenses and the potential eye-health risks related to wearingcontact lenses.
Contact Lenses
This site gives an overview of contact lens information that includescosts, types, how they work and what to look for in a good-fitting lens.
JOURNALS:
CLAO Journal (Backfilesof Table of Contents)
Contact : TheNewsletter of the British Contact Lens Association
Contact Lens Spectrum
Eye and Contact Lens (FormerlyCLAO Journal)
IACLENews & Views
InternationalContact Lens Clinic
CONTACT LENS RELATED COMPANIES:
Most of these companies have separate consumer/patient and eye practitioner/professionalpages.
Alcon Labs
Allergan
Bausch & Lomb
CIBA Vision
Cooper Vision
Ocular Sciences
Paragon Vision Sciences
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care
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