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Welcome to 1800MyEyeDoc.com,  the website of Dr. John W. Elman, Optometrist. Dr. Elman has been serving Santa Monica and the greater Los Angeles community since 1972. By clicking on the navigation bar on the left, you can acquaint yourself with Dr. Elman and the services and products available in his Santa Monica office, including the latest contact lens manufacturers' rebate offers. Certain items can be ordered through e-commerce links in the products section. Dr Elman's patients can re-order their contact lens replacements online by clicking on the manufactuer index here. You can also learn general concepts about the eyes and vision , eye conditions and diseases, as well as eye and general health resources that Dr. Elman would like to share with you, so you can discover more about the many options for better eye health. If your questions are not answered on this site or the dozens of links this site directs you to, Dr Elman encourages you to call, e-mail, or fill out the form in the Contact Us section of this site. Information about the location, office hours, parking and a link to a secure site (NoMoreClipBoard.com) that allows creation of an online Personal Health Record (PHR) for office preregistration is also located on the Contact Us page. You can search this website for a specific word or topic using the MSN Search Tool at the bottom of this page. You can translate this website into another language by using the Google Translator Tool. We hope you enjoy 1800MyEyeDoc.com and check back frequently--it will be updated as optical news, discoveries and available products change, which is practically daily. We appreciate your comments about our website and our office.
WHATS NEW IN CONTACT LENSES?
New contact lens materials using silicone hydrogel polymers released in 2005 became available in expanded parameters in 2006, and new contact lens materials and parameters continue to be released in 2007, 2008 and 2009. These include Johnson & Johnson Vistakon ACUVUE® OASYS™, ACUVUE® OASYS™ for Astigmatism, Bausch & Lomb's PureVision™ , PureVision™ Toric, Purevision™ Multifocal and various new materials by CibaVision. After Ciba's Night & Day® material, the company launched O2Optix™, and in July 2008, AirOptix Aqua. Ciba launched a new version of Night & Day®, called Air Optix Night & Day® Aqua in March, 2009. Coopervision launched its first silicone hydrogel contact lens material in 2008 Avaira™, a 2 week disposable lens which has special wetting properties..Ciba launched a toric silicone hydrogel contact lens April 14, 2008, AirOptix for Astigmatism. ACUVUE® OASYS™, which were available in only an 8.4 base curve originally, became available in an additional flatter 8.8 base curve in 2008. ACUVUE® OASYS™ for Astigmatism was launched June 16, 2008. Most initial launches of contact lenses for astigmatism have only limited paramaters but the inital launch of the this ACUVUE® OASYS™ for Astigmatism includes a tremendous range of powers: 4 cyl powers, sphere powers from +6.00 to -9.00 Diopters, and a wide range of axes, all with stabilizaton system the company first introduced with ACUVUE® ADVANCE™ for ASTIGMATISM.
Only B & L's PureVision® and Ciba's Air Optix Night and Day® Contact lenses have been approved by the FDA for up to 30 days of continuous wear and we have found that each lens material seems to work differently when we have tried them on patients--some preferring PureVision™ and others preferring Night and Day™. PureVision™Toric contact lenses for astigmatism were officially launched in the United States in 2006. It was the first contact lens for astigmatism approved for 30 day continous wear. AirOptix for Astigmatism and ACUVUE® OASYS™ for Astigmatism are approved by the FDA for 1 week of continous wear but not everyone can where lenses in this manner and risks for infection and other problems increase when wearing contact lenses overnight. All of the current contact lenses have manufacturers' rebates available on annual quantity orders. It seems to matter more with silicone hydrogels than with traditional soft hydrogel contact lens materials what solutions patients use with their contact lens (See Dr. Elman's All About Contact Lens Care Products.). Read Dr. Elman's explanation of silicone hydrogel contact lenses for more information about these lenses.
In addition to the silicone hydrogels there are new 1-day (single use) disposaable contact lenses that have been released by Bausch & Lomb, CIBA and Vistakon with special wetting agents to alleviate dry eye complaints of soft contact lens wearers. Ciba's Focus™ Dailies All Day Comfort Contact Lenses with AquaRelease™ are made with a wetting agent that releases moisture throughout the day with each blink. In July, 2008 Ciba launched another one day disposable, DAILIES® Aqua Comfort PLUS, which releases twice as much water as the original DAILIES® with AquaRelease™. Johnson and Johnson Vistakon 1-Day Acuvue™ Moist with Lacreon™ , which became available January, 2007, embeds a wetting agent within the lens matrix. Vistakon claims their process lasts longer than Ciba's, because the Ciba process diminishes throughout the day, but all the new materials should increase lens comfort, compared to earlier single use disposables with no wetting agents. The 1-Day Acuvue™ are only available in spherical powers to correct myopia and hyperopia in two base curves, and the Ciba Focus® DAILIES® are available in only 1 curve, but are available in limited powers for astigmatism (Focus® DAILIES® Toric) and presbyopia (Focus® DAILIES® Progressives). When Ciba launched the DAILIES® Aqua Comfort PLUS lenses (available in packs of 30 and 90) they lowered the price on the original DAILIES® with AquaRelease™, making 90 packs of the orginal DAILIES® more affordable than ever. B & L's Solflens Daily lenses, also available in 90 packs, are even less.
| AMO RECALLS COMPLETE® MOISTUREPLUS(TM) MULTIPURPOSE SOLUTION AND REPLACES IT WITH COMPLETE ® MPS Easy Rub™ |
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SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In response to information received May 25, 2007 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding eye infections from Acanthamoeba, a naturally occurring water-borne organism which can contribute to serious corneal infections, Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) (NYSE:EYE) recalled its Complete® MoisturePlus(TM) contact lens solutions. By October, 2007 AMO had reformulated its multipurpose contact lens product and it is now available as COMPLETE ® MPS Easy Rub™, essentially the original formual without the moisturizing agent. For FDA Preliminary Health Notification Click here. For entire story and response from AMO click here.
This follows by about one year the recall of Bausch and Lomb's ReNu® with MoistureLoc for implications of causing Fusarium keratitis (a type of fungal corneal infection) and it follows by one week AMO's offer to buy the Bausch and Lomb company. See Dr. Elman's All About Contact Lens Care Products. |
WHATS NEW ABOUT GETTING OLD?
We all can expect that as we get older we will develop the symptoms of a condition called Presbyopia. Read about how this condition develops in the section of this website called How the eye focuses on near objects and read about some of the newer treatment options in the section called Presbyopia.
WHATS NEW IN EYE DROPS?
Over the years among the mostly widely prescribed eye drops for people suffering from the red, itching eyes of ocular allergies were combination drops containing anti-histamines and mast cell stabilizers. These drops include Patanol (Alcon), Zaditor(Novartis), Optivar (Bausch & Lomb), and Elestat (Allergan). These prescription drops were expensive. The good news is that Zaditor and Alaway (B&L) have gone OTC (over the counter) making them more affordable for the uninsured ocular allergy sufferers.
SPORTS GOGGLES
Dr Elman's office is now offering a new line of sports goggles by BIRDZ Eyewear, some of which can be ordered with spectacle lens Rx insert online from this website. This is in addtion to the Liberty Sport goggles and frames that are available for both contact (football, basketball, soccer, racketball) and non-contact sports activity (biking, cycling, sky diving, water and snow sports) with shatter-resistant polycarbonate lenses both with and without prescription.
PRADA eyewear
Dr Elman's office is proud to announce the 2009 collection of PRADA eyewear is now in his Santa Monica office.
GOOGLE HEALTH and NoMoreClipboard.com
Google Health was launched in 2008 to allow Google's expertise in information technology to be utilized to allow users to create personal health records (PHRs) on a secure online server. Patient's can create a log-in account at either www.google.com/health or NoMoreClipboard.com for information and account creation. See demonstration.
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