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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 on line 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 or Google Search Tools 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 become available in expanded parameters each year. These include Johnson & Johnson Vistakon ACUVUE® OASYS™, ACUVUE® OASYS™ for Astigmatism, Bausch & Lomb's PureVision® , PureVision®2 HD, PureVision® Toric, Purevision® Multifocal and various new materials by CibaVision and CooperVision. Ciba launched a new version of Night & Day®, called Air Optix Night & Day® Aqua in 2009, replacing the original Night & Day®. Coopervision launched Avaira® its first silicone hydrogel contact lens material, in 2008, but recalled Avaira Toric in 2011. Later Biofinity® and Biofinity® Toric became available, the latter of which has some of the largest parameters in silicone hydrogels to correct astigmatism. AirOptix® Multifocal , ACUVUE® OASYS® for PRESBYOPIA, PureVision® Multifocal are silicone hydrogets that correct presbyopia.
Only B & L's PureVision®, PureVision®2 HD, and Ciba's Air Optix Night and Day® Contact lenses have been approved by the FDA for up to 30 days of continuous wear . PureVision®Toric contact lens 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 wear lenses in this manner and risks for infection and other problems increase when wearing contact lenses overnight. Most of the new contact lens materials have manufacturers' rebates available on annual quantity orders and VSP insurance offers additional rebates on certain lenses. 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. DAILIES® Aqua Comfort PLUS releases twice as much water as the original DAILIES® with AquaRelease™. 1-Day Acuvue® Moist with Lacreon™ embeds a wetting agent within the lens matrix. 1-Day Acuvue® TruEye, launched in 2010, is the only silicone hydrogel 1 day CL. 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). Vistakon 1-Day Acuvue® Moist became available in 90 packs in 2010, for reduced price. Manufacture's rebates are available on annual supplies of most new contact lenses.
THEATRICAL  CONTACT LENSES
Theatrical contact lenses (see Vision Science Studios) come in a variety of colors but must be cared for as Rx contact lenses even if they have no optical correction.
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B&L launched its latest multipurpose solution, Biotrue™, in 2010. In October, 2007 AMO had reformulated its multipurpose contact lens product as COMPLETE ® MPS Easy Rub™. The original Complete had been linked to eye infections from Acanthamoeba. 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 Are any of these better than older contact lens solutions. See Dr. Elman's All About Contact Lens Care Products. for answers. |
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?
In addition to Rx drops for red, itching symptoms of eye allergeres [Patanol (Alcon), Zaditor(Novartis), Optivar (Bausch & Lomb), and Elestat (Allergan)]. there are now less expensive OTC (Over the Counter) Drops: Zaditor(Novartis) and Alaway (B&L).
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 and bebe eyewear
Dr Elman's office is proud to announce the 2012 collections of PRADA and bebe eyewear in his Santa Monica office.
GOOGLE HEALTH DISCONTINUTED, Microsoft HealthVault and NoMoreClipboard.com still good idea
Google Health service, used to create personal health records (PHRs) was discontinued Jan 1 2012. Patients can create a new log-in account and transfer data to either Microsoft HealthVault or NoMoreClipboard.com See demonstration .
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