Ep 6: 2020 in Review- New Releases

You’ll learn

• Priscilla and Chawan review their 2020 highlights/low lights and eye care products that came out this year. Listen to see if you know about all of them!

• An overview of what’s new in 2020:

  • COVID 19 impacts on dry eyes (MADE), eye banks

  • New myopia control lenses: MiSight, Arise, Moon Lenses

  • New soft contact lenses: INFUSE 1 day, Precision 1 day, Biotrue ONE day with an expanded parameter, Biofinity Toric MF

  • New scleral contact lenses: Ares Scleral

  • New scleral lens filling solution: Nutrifill

  • New Eye drops: Upneeq, Teprotumumab, Optase, Refresh Digital, Pataday, Zerviate, EYsuVIS

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Resources/Sources:

• COVID Mask Induced Dry Eyes

  • Moshirfar, M., West, W.B. & Marx, D.P. Face Mask-Associated Ocular Irritation and Dryness. Ophthalmol Ther 9, 397–400 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40123-020-00282-6

• COVID impact on Eye bank guidelines

• Myopia Management lenses

  • Soft lenses:

    • MiSight 1-day (Cooper Vision)

  • Orthokeratology:

    • Arise (Bausch and Lomb)

    • Moon Lenses (Art Optical)

• New Soft Lenses/ parameters

  • INFUSE 1-day (Bausch and Lomb)

  • Precision 1-day (Alcon)

  • Biotrue ONEday toric now comes in -2.75 cyl (Bausch and Lomb)- in six-axis parameters

  • Biofinity Toric Multifocal (Cooper Vision)

• New Scleral Lens

  • Ares Scleral (Valley Contax)

• New Scleral Lens filling solution:

  • Nutrifill

• New Eye drops

  • Upneeq

  • Teprotumumab

  • Optase

  • Refresh Digital

  • Pataday OTC!

  • Zerviate

  • EYsuVIS

Thanks for Listening! Happy New Year!

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