Sentences with phrase «with contact lens»

Will be responsible for verifying patient information, preparing patients for examination, assisting with contact lens insertion, and maintaining accurate filing of patient records.

Worked with contact lens and optical companies to create special promotions and co-op programs.

Moreover, because they lens - shaped firm plastic material, many people complain of comfort issues with contact lens wear which made wearing them impossible.

«Microbial keratitis is a relatively rare complication associated with contact lens use and LASIK postoperatively,» the article said.

In our experience with contact lens infections, some patients have lost vision and have needed a corneal transplant, or even lost the eye.

«It is difficult to compare complications from contact lens use to LASIK, because the complication rate of both is so rare, but our analysis definitely shows that the infection rate is higher with contact lens use comparted to LASIK,» Dr. Waite said.

But the company has a good history of getting in to reasonably good businesses — first with the pre-paid mobile business, and then with the contact lens store.

UV protection with contact lenses.

I've tried Natural Almond Oil Mascara that gave me glossy black lashes, relief from clumps and flakes and comfort for my sensitive eyes with contact lenses.

I definitely lean towards natural mascaras that make really good impression, but are friendly to my sensitive eyes with contact lenses.

I love how they keep playing up he blinded himself with contact lenses.

This is an additional security and privacy layer that promises to work with contact lenses (clear), non-mirrored sunglasses as well as eyeglasses.

Not exact matches

In a Facebook Live session with Jerry Seinfeld, the Facebook cofounder and CEO tells the comedian that the very first thing he does in the morning, even before he gets out of bed to use the bathroom or puts in his contact lenses, is check his phone.

As the company recently blogged, it is applying technology to eyewear in a new way: a smart contact lens that could help people with diabetes monitor their glucose levels.

Magic Leap, which is working on contact lenses with virtual reality capabilities, leads a growing pack of startups when it comes to funding.

The contact lenses were developed during the past 18 months in the clandestine Google X lab that also came up with a driverless car, Google's Web - surfing eyeglasses and Project Loon, a network of large balloons designed to beam the Internet to unwired places.

Whether it's mechanical appendages, stem - cell technology or even just bionic contact lenses, we will soon be blending with patented inventions.

Yes, a contact lens made with super-tiny chips and sensors and an antenna inside that — of course — you wear right on your eyeball.

But instead of showing you status updates, driving directions or allowing you to take pictures directly from your field of vision like Glass does, the intention for these contact lenses is very specific: to aid people with diabetes.

Combined with Google's recent development of contact lenses that monitor blood sugar levels for diabetics — but that are expected to eventually have all the capability of Google Glass — you may never know whether the person next to you on the bus is online or not, says Keith Gillard, managing partner of Pangaea Ventures, a Vancouver - based venture capital firm that's watching this space.

Diabetes care and spin products were weak, offsetting strength in contact lenses along with endocutters and trauma products.

Verily has tinkered with miniaturized, newfangled medical devices (like a smart contact lens) since its inception inside Google's X research lab.

Through the actions of its legislature and the relevant regulatory agencies, Illinois sets numerous conditions on that use: myopic people have to wear glasses or contact lenses while driving; people with retinitis pigmentosa are forbidden from driving at night; teenagers must reach a certain age and demonstrate certain skills before they obtain driver's licenses; people with a habit of driving after knocking back a dozen Budweisers lose their licenses.

Desjardins was hit in the right eye by a puck last February, sat out the rest of the season and now will try to play with a thick contact lens.

However, contact lens wearers can get UNITY BluTech lenses without prescription to wear over their contacts when working with an electronic screen; again, think safety glasses.

As water vapor comes in contact with your cooler swim goggle lenses, it reaches its saturation point, causing water droplets to form during a process known as deposition.

All open adoption participants, no matter the spectrum of their contact with one another, can incorporate these beliefs (a values - based lens) into their way of thinking.

If you choose to use the saline bath to preserve the baby, fill the vessel with saline solution (0.9 % contact lens solution with 50 % distilled water will work).

If you choose to use the saline bath to preserve the baby, fill the vessel with saline solution (contact lens solution will work).

I think contact lenses are a great invention, especially for people with high error of refraction.

It is an economical, healthy choice for people who use contact lenses, people with sensitive eyes, and people who just aren't happy with what's available at the corner store.

The concept of a disposable drug - doling contact lens has been kicked around at least since the 1960s, but attempts have ended with lenses unable to regulate drug diffusion well enough, says Joseph Ciolino, an ophthalmologist with the MEEI and another of the project's researchers.

Google is to work with Swiss drug company Novartis to develop a smart contact lens that will improve vision and monitor health.

He went there to work on a «smart» contact lens for people with diabetes that measures the level of glucose in tears.

Humans can correct nearsightedness with glasses, contact lenses or surgery, but myopia can put individuals at risk for other diseases such as glaucoma and retinal detachment, she said.

As well as the smart contact - lens project, there is the Baseline Study, which aims to collect large amounts of data about people to better quantify health and disease, with the goal of earlier and more - effective preventive care.

These adults had been deprived of all patterned vision from birth until the cataracts were removed surgically and the eyes fitted with appropriate contact lenses that restored nearly normal visual input.

In a study of 58 adults seeking outpatient eye care, researchers at New York University School of Medicine found that contact lenses make the eye microbiome more skin - like, with higher proportions of the skin bacteria Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Methylobacterium, and Lactobacillus and lower proportions of Haemophilus, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, and Corynebacterium.

Vision and magnetism undoubtedly do play a part, although neither seems adequate, for pigeons find their way even when fitted with frosted contact lenses.

Video lenses are inestimably far off, Parviz concedes, but in the next few years he expects to build contacts with preprinted, illuminable characters and icons as well as an eight - by - eight array of LEDs.

Visual impairment — sight loss often caused by eye disease, trauma, or a congenital or degenerative condition that can not be corrected with glasses or contact lenses — is associated with a poorer quality of life and, when severe, loss of independence.

If the surgery is assumed to have essentially a one - time risk for infection, after five years of extrapolation, contact lens wearers would show 11 more cases per 10,000 than those with surgery.

Over time, the risk for microbial keratitis was higher for contact lens use than for LASIK, specifically with extended - wear lenses.»

«Most contact lens wearers use them for decades, which means they have a much higher risk of corneal infection compared to the risk with LASIK,» said Dr. Waite, director of the Cornea, Cataract, and Refractive Surgery Program at the Hamilton Eye Institute and associate professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at UT Health Science Center.

The authors were Jordan Masters, MD; Mehmet Kocak, PhD; and Aaron Waite, MD. «The risk for microbial keratitis was similar between patients using contact lenses at one year, compared with LASIK.

Last September, Sensimed, a Swiss spin - off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, launched the very first commercial smart contact lens, designed to improve treatment for people with glaucoma.

Despite numerous studies in the last several decades, the biggest drawback with conventional smart contact lenses was thought to be poor wearability.

Contact lenses are more than twice as likely to provide doctors with samples of the microbes causing a corneal infection as is the cornea itself.

According to the research team, their newly - developed smart lenses with built - in pressure - sensing and glucose - monitoring sensors could still detect blood glucose and IOP despite the deformation of the contact lenses.

By age 5, nine children in the contact lens group developed minor eye infections that cleared up with antibiotic drops, and in one child, a contact lens broke during wear.