Course Category: NCLE

You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Brief Course Description Contact Lens Handling & Care If the patient is well educated on the proper techniques, it is less likely that he or she will have serious problems. A videotape or pamphlet is quite helpful in explaining the proper procedures. … Continued

You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Brief Course Description Modification & Delivery   This course covers the subjects of in-office contact lens modification of rigid lenses, and delivery to the patient. Also included in this copurse is some supplementary information on the use of the radiuscope, on DK … Continued

You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Brief Course Description RGP Lens Alteration The ability to carry out modifications of rigid contact lenses in the office provides benefits to the patient as well as to the contact lens practitioner. It enables the patient to continue their wearing schedule without … Continued

You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Brief Course Description RGP Fitting & Evaluation Studies have shown that rigid gas permeable (RGP) lenses are indicated for, at minimum, 30% of all new contact lens patients. Nevertheless, the percentages of new patients being fit into RGPs–especially among younger practitioners–are much … Continued

You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Brief Course Description Contact Lens Instrumentation This course covers the uses of two pieces of equipment, the keratometer and the slit lamp, which are indispensable to the successful fitting and evaluation of rigid and soft contact lenses. The keratometer (also known as … Continued

You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Brief Course Description Anatomical Considerations Although this course is entitled Anatomical Considerations, it might just as easily be called Potentially Adverse Effects of Contact Lens Wear. In effect, this course catalogues many of the potentially negative aspects of contact lens wear. However, … Continued

You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Brief Course Description Basic Contact Lens Design This course starts with a discussion of the various contact lens designs to include scleral, corneal and semi-scleral lenses. Some basic terminology is covered and the various materials from which contact lenses can be made … Continued

You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Brief Course Description Optical Principles of Contact Lesnes There are many reasons why a contact lens prescription can differ significantly from a spectacle prescription belonging to the same patient. By studying the principles of optics which need to be considered when fitting … Continued

You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Brief Course Description Fitting & Verification We’ll start with a discussion of palpebral lenses as well as larger lenses with wide peripheral curves. The general characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of each will be discussed. This will be followed by methods and procedures … Continued