Optometry Links
Dr. Melman's Eyeland links you to a wealth of online vision resources.
When you need an optometrist in Voorhees, New Jersey, Dr. Melman and his team of eye care experts can answer any of your eye care questions.
- eyeland Newsletter
Quarterly news updates about eyecare and eyeland events - All About Vision
A comprehensive patient guide to various new products and vision health concerns. - Corneal Remolding Myopia Correction
Since the sixties it has been known that wearing special design rigid contact lenses can cause the cornea to change its shape and reduce nearsighted corrections. New technologies over the last 15 years has refined this process and allowed for substantially improved and more predictable results including wearing lenses overnight and removing them during the daytime!
Links:
MyopiaPrevention.org- An excellent resource on myopia research and treatment options
Corneal reshaping in children - Journal article on corneal molding
Link collection on corneal molding
Smart Study- Ongoing study on corneal molding in Facebook- Reviews previous studies and updates current one.Eyecare Professionalshttp://www.gentlevisionshaping.com/whatisgvss.php- Link to practice site discussing corneal molding
Orthokeratology- General overview
Corneal reshaping: Point/Counterpoint Article discussing pro/con with prominent practitioner.
- Computer Vision Syndrome
Learn more about computer vision syndrome (CVS) - a very real problem for many people who spend hours daily in front of a computer screen. - Info on Refractive Surgery
This site offers a balanced view on Laser Vision Correction as well as other types of refractive surgery. - Eye Conditions and treatment
Understanding eye pathology
- Online eye testing-My Vision Test
An interesting site for self testing your central vision for holes in your visual field.
- vertical diplopia evaluation
A nice description of typical cases of vertical diplopia with differential diagnoses
- Friends and bloggers
links to interesting eye related websites.
Ambler PA Eye doctor- Rich Sterling,OD
Justin Bazan- Park Slope Eye, Brooklin NY
Dickson Chen,OD- Pasadena, California
Dan Mirken,OD- Rockaway Park, NY
Rajeev Raghu,OD- Eye Center of Jackson NJ
John Warren,OD- Ocular Commons Blog Racine, WS
- Kremer Eye Center
The leaders in LASIK and refractive treatments, we offer a range treatment options that improve your vision and treat nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism, allowing you to live a life free of glasses or contacts.
- Nevyas Eye Associates
Comprehensive and specialty ophthalmic consultants including lasik and other refractive surgeries. - Gas permeable contact lenses
Gas permeable lenses provide unique benefits that make them the lens of choice for bifocal wearers, damaged corneas, keratoconus and other corneal distortions. They often provide the most stable vision for astigmatism. Corneal reshaping ( orthokeratology ) can often reduce or eliminate refractive errors including myopia and astigmatism. There are lenses designed to be worn overnight so that you can go without contacts during the day. There are even studies documenting that children and teens wearing gas permeable contacts are much less likely to go through the normal progressive increases in myopia that is otherwise so common. Check the website for more information. - US Optometry Clinics
Additional information about other optometry clinics in the US. - Vision Council
- Children's Vision Coalition
- Friends and Associates, non-optometry
Links to Friends, business associates and patients not directly related to eyecare.
1) Alpha Phi Omega Zeta Theta of Drexel University - The Drexel website of the fratenity with the largest number of chapters in the nation. Set up by the estimable Ari Melman of Zeta Theta Alpha phi Omega.
- High risk medications for eye toxicity
Information about eye side effects of commonly used medications.
Plaquenil - AOA article. Case description and management discussion from IU was excellent.
Steroids- Discussion of steroid uses and side effects OSN- Durezol highest potency steroid for severe inflammation, Lotemax has one of best safety profiles, prednisolone longtime standard. Ocular side effects of topical and systemic steroids article
- Optimum Lid Care- Dr. Shelley Cutler
Dr. Cutler shares her tested principles of lid care. Following these tips will improve your ability to comfortably wear contact lenses, reduce eye infections and styes, and generally feel better. - National Eye Institute
Eye Health information from the National Eye Institute, one of the world's leading sources of Eye research, education and health policy. - Video game play improves amblyopia in adults
Nice study verifying that actively playing videogames while patching the good eye in amblyopia speeds up the therapeutic improvement in amblyopia. - Flashes and Floaters
Nice discussion of flashes and floaters, a common and potentially serious eye problem. - Color vision problems
Good link about how color vision affects people and how to cope with it. Special sections on what teachers, coaches and employers may need to know!