Quiz For Contact Lenses for Baby Boomers (ARCHIVED)

The reading and distance portion of the contact lens comes into the pupillary area at the same time resulting in the patient looking through the distance and near portion at the same time presenting two images at once. This technique for the correction of presbyopia is called:

For which of the following could prism ballast lenses be used:

The power of a bifocal lens gradually changes from the central area of the lens to the periphery. This lens is known as:

The rotation of a bifocal contact lens may be inhibited by:

An example of a bifocal contact lens which may rotate without impairment is:

Which of the following is not a recommended method for providing the presbyope with contact lenses?

The _______________technique may be used to correct presbyopia with contact lenses. A single vision contact lens with the distance Rx is placed in the dominant eye and the near vision Rx is placed in the nondominant eye.

Among the challenges when fitting aging patients with contact lenses include

__________________occurs when the ability to focus on close objects gradually diminishes due to lack of accommodation.

That large segment of the population born between____________is known as the “Baby Boom” generation.

The following are among the functional and structural changes which may effect contact lens wear and the aging eye:

1. less corneal sensitivity
2. diminishing pupil size
3. cataract formation
4. gradual loss of elasticity of the eyelids

Patients who were successful wearing simultaneous design multifocal lenses may experience blurred distance or near vision. This is most likely due to:

___________________________may result in faster adaptation to contact lenses with aging patients.

___________________may reduce the amount of light reaching the retina, resulting in decreased visual performance

Patients more likely to succeed with bifocal contact lenses are:

When fitting bifocal contact lenses to the aging patient it’s best if the spherical equivalent of the addition is between:

Aging increases the likelihood of dry eye symptoms because:

The easiest way to correct the near vision of presbyopic contact lens patients is to:

____________________involves placing a lens with the distance vision correction in the dominant eye and a lens with the near vision correction in the other eye

In this contact lens design the near correction is in a small circle in the center of the lens surrounded by a much larger section containing the distance power.

_______________________contact lenses change lens power gradually from the center to the edge of the lens.

While wearing ______________________lenses the distance and the near portion of the lens are within the line of sight at al times.

______________________________are similar to spectacle bifocals in that the patient looks through the upper portion of the lens to see far objects and through the lower portion of the lens while reading

____________________is one of the most common lens stabilizing techniques which causes the lens to rotate so that the base of the prism is oriented inferiorly

___________________________serves to stabilize an lens when the lower flat edge comes to lie adjacent to the lower lid margin

The ______________technique of lens stabilization creates a lens which is thicker along its central body which lies along the palpebral fissure and thinner along the inferior and superior edges which come to lie under the upper and lower lids.

________________________lens surfaces used for axis stabilization are generally used in combination with truncation or prism ballast.

While wearing bifocal contact lenses the patient should understand that visual acuity under all circumstances may be

Combining all “baby boomers” into the “mature” category simply because of their age

1. is an excellent business decision
2. may not be the best business decision
3. may cause them to look elsewhere for their eyecare services
4. may be insulting to them

As boomers advance in age which of the following characteristics may effect contact lens wear: