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Dr. Vinita Henry (Clinical Professor) is the Associate Dean of Clinical Operations. She serves as an instructor in the Clinical Topics of Contact Lenses and the Contact Lens I courses. She completed her Doctor of Optometry and Residency in Cornea and Contact Lens at UMSL. Her area of clinical specialization is contact lenses. During her time at UMSL, she has held the roles of Chief of the Contact Lens Service, Cornea and Contact Lens Program Coordinator, and the Director of Residencies. She has conducted numerous contact lens research projects, lectures and publications over the years, most recently the publication of the fifth edition of the Clinical Manual of Contact Lens with Dr. Ed Bennett. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Optometry and a Diplomate in the Cornea, Contact Lens and Refractive Technologies Section. She is a member of the American Optometric Association, AOA Contact Lens and Cornea Section, the Missouri Optometric Association, the St. Louis Optometric Society, and the ASCO Clinic Directors SIG.

Dr. Wolfe has a passion for education. He is a co-founder of KMK Board Certification Review Services, a company specializing in preparing Doctors of Optometry to take the American Board of Optometry examination. He is the founder of EyeCode Education, a company specializing in clinical and billing education. Dr. Wolfe is a fellow in the American Academy of Optometry and a Diplomate of the American Board of Optometry. He also has special interests in therapeutic scleral contact lenses to correct visual distortions in patients with corneal diseases. Dr. Wolfe is an avid runner and most of all, he enjoys spending time with his wife Jaime, daughters Ryan, Paityn, Camryn, Logan, Maisyn and sons Lincoln, Deacon, and Benton.

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Ortho-K uses custom GP contact lenses to reshape the cornea to temporarily reduce refractive error.2 Ortho-K is primarily used as a correction for low-to-moderate myopia (up to -6.00D) with or without astigmatism (up to -1.75D).2

Needless to say, when tangling with insurance, coverage varies widely from one plan to another, as well as vision care plans vs. medical plans. But Dr. Fischer says most of the vision care plans his office accepts have great coverage for medically necessary contact lenses for conditions such as keratoconus, pellucid marginal degeneration, corneal scarring, high ametropia and high anisometropia, he says.

Dr. Miller later completed a cornea and contact lens residency and was hired at an office that wanted to incorporate specialty contact lenses into their practice. She eventually developed an ortho-K clinic and then added scleral and prosthetic lenses to the practice.

A major impediment to the growth of the contact lens market remains the fact that contact lenses induce end-of-day dryness symptoms in some 50% of wearers. 1, 2 This results in poor comfort for the last 2-3 hours of the day in a substantial number of people 2, 3 and is a major driving force behind contact lens dropout, 4, 5 which occurs in some 20-25% of all patients who commence lens wear. 5, 6 Despite the introduction of many new contact lens materials and solutions over the past decade, the percentage of wearers who complain of end-of-day dryness and discomfort has hardly changed in 20 years.

Corneal oxygenation: An issue that has been addressed

While contact lens discomfort remains an issue, one issue that has been addressed relates to corneal oxygenation. Historically, the relatively poor oxygen transmission of the initial low water content hydrogel materials resulted in many wearers exhibiting a variety of physiological issues, particularly those who wore their lenses for long periods of time or who had relatively thick lenses due to a high spherical prescription or being a toric design. This was exacerbated in people who wore lenses overnight and many reports occurred of limbal hyperemia, stromal striae, neovascularisation, epithelial microcysts and endothelial changes, as described in various reviews. 7-10 To overcome this, companies developed lenses with higher water content, which increased the oxygen permeability (Dk) of the lens material, 11-13 but not to the level of preventing significant overnight corneal swelling. It soon became apparent that such materials dehydrated if their thickness was below a minimal level, resulting in marked corneal staining. 14, 15 Commercially viable high water content lenses needed to be made thicker, which mitigated the dehydration issues but negated some of the oxygen transport benefits associated with increasing the water content.

Thus, it transpired that using conventional hydrogel lens materials, in which Dk is proportional to water content, resulted in oxygen transmissibility (Dk/t) values that were limited by the thickness of the lens materials and resulted in materials with Dk/t values in the high teens to mid 20s. 16, 17 However, these high water content hydrogels were clinically successful and did minimise hypoxic clinical signs in the majority of subjects who wore their lenses on a daily wear basis. 18-21

Mechanical differences between hydrogels and SiHys

Other notable differences between the properties of hydrogel and SiHy materials relate to their mechanical property differences. The incorporation of siloxane groups increases the modulus and stiffness of SiHys, 33, 48-50 resulting in a number of mechanical complications, 51-53 particularly with lower water content SiHys, which have the highest modulus. 49 These mechanical complications include superior epithelial arcuate lesions, 54-56 mucin balls, 57-61 epithelial flaps, 62-65 contact lens associated papillary conjunctivitis 66-68 and corneal erosions. 52, 53 Another unanticipated issue relates to increased levels of corneal staining associated with the wear of certain SiHy materials when used with various preserved care systems. 69-75 While the debate concerning the clinical relevance of this solution-induced corneal staining (SICS) rages on, 76-80 the fact remains that for many subjects, refitting into hydrogel lenses and retaining the same solution eliminates the presence of SICS.

Publications Contact Lens Spectrum and its comprehensive archived article base is a great place to start when trying to learn more about specialty contact lenses. Clinical Manual of Contact Lenses, 5th ed. is a comprehensive text with an emphasis on specialty lens applications. Contemporary Scleral Lenses: Theory and Applications is another text that extensively covers all areas of scleral lens application and care. In addition, most publications offer practitioners the ability to read either the print versions or a digital version on their preferred device.

Expand Your Specialty Lens Patient Base It is imperative to inform the ECPs (both OD and MD) in your community that you provide specialty contact lens services and also to use social media and an informational brochure to help in promoting these services. The best place to start with specialty contact lens practice may simply be to look at your existing patient base for underserved opportunities in which you can potentially upgrade existing patients into customized contact lens designs. One such example would be refitting a high astigmat who experiences fluctuating vision in mass-produced toric contact lenses into a GP. Once practitioners build sufficient confidence working within their own patient base, they will have the foundation to seek these patients outside of their practice. With momentum, practitioners can increasingly move the direction of the practice toward managing specialty contact lens cases.

The art and science required for specialty contact lens fitting is more apparent than with routine eye care. It is this intangible that will take patients who have been told by multiple practitioners that they cannot wear contact lenses to success. In the care of such specialists, patients can have a life-changing experience by being able to function when they otherwise could not. More often than not, this change has been the result of some form of GP contact lens. The quality of vision achieved with these lenses alone makes them the foundation of every specialty contact lens practice. CLS

Texts Several comprehensive contemporary textbooks have published within the last few years that have an emphasis on specialty contact lenses. These include texts by Nathan Efron, AC, DSc, PhD, BScOptom; Anthony (Tony) Phillips, MPhil, and Lynne Speedwell, BSc, MSc(Health Psych); and Edward Bennett, OD, MSEd, with Vinita Henry, OD (Table 1).

Symposia There is a growing number of contact lens symposia worldwide in which attendees have the opportunity to increase their expertise in all forms of specialty contact lenses. Many of these include the opportunity for hands-on workshop training. The Global Specialty Lens Symposium (GSLS) ( ), which will take place from Jan. 22 to 25, 2020 in Las Vegas, typically offers more than 100 hours of specialty contact lens education from which to choose.

In summary, numerous resources are available to help increase ECP interest and success with specialty contact lenses. Once you fit your first few patients into a scleral, multifocal, keratoconus, or other custom specialty contact lens design, you become comfortable with fitting those designs and excited about the quality of life improvements experienced by your patients. The tools are out there for you to successfully fit patients with these lenses. Do not hesitate to use them. You will not be disappointed. CLS

Instillation of lubricating eye drops approved for use with contact lenses may help relieve some eye dryness during your flight.6 Keep in mind that the United States Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) limits the size of any liquid container carried onboard an airplane to a 3.4 ounce (100ml) bottle or less unless the liquids are medically necessary. 3,7 Contact lens solution is considered a medically necessary liquid, so full-size bottles must be declared separately at the entry to the security checkpoint. 7 The solution is then subject to further screening. Solution manufacturers do tend to sell 2 oz. travel size containers of solution for those still wary of TSA restrictions. In the absence of a smaller manufacturer-supplied container of solution, do not attempt to transfer contact lens solution to a smaller container. This allows for contamination of the solution during transfer, which can lead to a serious eye infection.3 17dc91bb1f