Contact Lens Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075064690X ISBN 13: 9780750646901

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

This manual is comprised of beautifully presented illustrations and draws together contributions from international experts in the field. It provides a highly readable and approachable book, that truly gets to grips with relating theory to practice. "Contact Lens Practice" has an evidence-based approach with practical protocols and guidance. Both practitioners and students of optometry and dispensing optics will find all the information that they require within the pages of this text. An essential ready reference for all contact lens practitioners.

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Review

"...The editor tells us in the preface that the aim is to produce a book that will provide both students and clinicians with a substantial, evidence based and balanced overview of the field of contact Lenses I think the book has achieved these aims . It provides an excellent overview of the contemporary contact lens field and is highly recommended ." Associate Professor Michael J Collins, School of Optometry Queensland University of Technology, Clinical and Experimental Optometry, May 2002 worthwhile and necessary addition to the professional library of any practitioner... 2002 marks the 100th anniversary of the first textbook account of contact lenses. In Contact Lens Practice, he (Nathan Efron) has provided clinicians with a text worthy of the centennial ." Pete Hanlin, LDO, ABOM, Optiboard, January 2002 of the most comprehensive in depth texts yet on contact lens management and technique... Spend the money, take three weeks and read the book. Your patients will benefit ." Charles E. (Chip) Anderson, FCLSA

From the Publisher

Highly designed and beautifully presented with illustrations of the best quality possible, this book draws together contributions from international experts in the field. It has been rigorously edited to provide a highly readable and approachable book truly relating theory to practice with its evidence based approach with practical protocols and guidance for practitioners.This book:* Provides an fascinating 'historical time line' of contact lens development and explains the current global situation* Explains how contact lenses are fabricated, designed, manufactured and measured* Outlines a rational clinical approach to modern contact lens fitting* Reviews the scientific principles that underpin the clinical application of contact lenses* Details the various applications of contact lensesStudents of optometry and dispensing optics will find all the information that they require within the pages of this text. It will be an essential ready reference for all contact lens practitioners.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075064690X
• ISBN 13: 9780750646901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Efron Nathan