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1. Guided by the WAVE Customised Vision Correction

   Matthew Wensor | 28 April 2012

   Wavefront aberrometry allows clinicians to evaluate the optical characteristics of the eye, including not only the lower order aberrations (sphere and cylinder), but also higher order aberrations such as trefoil, coma and spherical aberration. By taking into... Read More

   

2. Ensuring Satisfaction

   Melanie Kell | 05 October 2011

   There's no doubt that any customer who walks through your doors will have 'an experience', but as an eye care practitioner, it's in your best interests to ensure that each customer has a great experience. HOYA TrueSight video centration dispensing system... Read More

   

3. ODMA: Top Technology for Your Practice

   Lee Pepper | 29 June 2011

   Technology is increasingly integral to providing cutting edge eye care service. It really does allow practitioners to know every part of their patients' eyes better than they've ever known them before. Patients with glaucoma and macular degeneration, two of... Read More

   

4. ODMA Technology Highlights

   Melanie Kell | 29 June 2011

   ODMA 2011 will showcase the many advances in ophthalmic technology and equipment from around the world that are pushing boundaries for eye health. To give you a hint of what's on show, we've previewed a few of the highlights here.  Optical Manufacturers... Read More

   

5. The Intuitive Colorimeter: a valuable optometric...

   Prof Bruce JW Evans | 17 May 2011

   Optometrists have long been interested in helping people with reading difficulties. There is good evidence that several visual problems are particularly likely to be found in people with reading difficulties, including binocular visual anomalies,... Read More

   

6. Zeiss: AMD Screening Improvement

   Matthew Wensor | 30 April 2011

   The new Carl Zeiss Visucam, a non-mydriatic fundus camera, is breaking new ground in helping clinicians to identify and manage patients with dry AMD. Carl Zeiss has just released the Visucam, the first commercially available fundus camera in the world, to... Read More

   

7. Nidek F-10 Digital Ophthalmoscope

   Michelle Hauschild | 31 March 2011

   Described as the 'next generation' of scanning laser ophthalmoscope, the Nidek F-10 is designed to give ophthalmologists a high definition diagnostic imaging system. The Nidek F-10 is a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO), able to provide what the... Read More

   

8. Monitoring Dry AMD

   Robin Lanesman | 28 February 2011

   The number of people in Australia with AMD has been predicted to double in the next 20 years. However, new diagnostic devices for early AMD detection, recently devised treatments and ongoing research, are helping reverse the process of this devastating eye... Read More

   

9. The MPOD

   Michelle Hauschild | 29 September 2010

   Low macular pigment has been linked to Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), but until now there has never been a definitive way to measure macular pigments levels. However, new technology, developed by the Department of Optometry at the University of... Read More

   

10. New Laser Treatment May Prevent Vision Loss

    Norm Lipson | 31 August 2010

    It's been nearly 10 years in the making, but a new laser treatment pioneered in Australia is set to herald a revolution in the treatment of Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Diabetic Macular Edema (DME). This new laser treatment, known as Ellex... Read More