Review of Optometic Business

By Mile Brujic, OD, and David Kading, OD

The right lens care--with a quality solution--can ensure contact lens wearing comfort and reduce your costly contact lens dropouts.

By Mile Brujic, OD

Utilize technology to demonstrate the potentially harmful effects of poor contact lens care compliance. In the process, you can greatly improve patient comfort and success with contact lenses.

By Charles Aldridge, OD

Prescribe a care regimen to contact lens patients--and have staff reinforce your initial conversation--to improve lens care compliance and comfort. Here are three critical conversations to have with your patients that will reduce costly contact lens dropouts--measurably.

By Gina Wesley, OD, MS, FAAO  

Contact lens patients are highly valuable to a practice. Yet, many patients drop out of contact lens wear--often without the ECP knowing--because of comfort problems that easily can be addressed. Being pro-active in lens care recommendations can improve patient comfort and reduce costly dropouts.

By Judith Lee

This is the final installment of a four-part series on contact lens prescribing.                

The loss of a single contact lens patient has a cost, both to your patient and to your practice. For the patient who drops out of contact lens wear, they are doing so for reasons that can often be addressed by you, their doctor and contact lens specialist. For the practice, the loss of revenues from that patient is considerable, and, for the first time, a study has placed a value upon that...

By ROB Editors

Asking your patients the right questions about their contact lens use and care will help you pinpoint discomfort that will otherwise lead them to drop out. Contact lens patients, whose return visits to the office are more frequent than those of eyeglasses-only patients, are highly valuable to the practice long term, so reducing dropouts is a key practice builder.

By ROB Editors

E-mail-based automatic reminding systems, such as Alcon's EyeVIP program, can help your patients better comply with your contact lens cleaning and replacement recommendations.