The companies behind smart contact lenses are staying quiet about their work, but we know that applications include health monitoring, medical treatment for allergy and burns, invisible computing and enhancing vision. The future of optometry includes the utilization of smart contact lenses for allergy, glaucoma, AMD, OSD, and more.
Yes, patients’ eyes are feeling more dry while wearing masks during the pandemic.
ODs have several technologies available to assist in the diagnosis and management of patients’ ocular and visual conditions during the current novel coronavirus pandemic. One of these technologies is fundus autofluorescence (FAF). This article demonstrates the utility of using FAF technology to identify numerous fundus conditions and speculates on FAF use as a potential future tool for identifying SARS-CoV-2 infection in the eye.
