• Home
  • opt NOW!
    • Business & News
    • Equipment
    • Frames
    • Lenses
    • Press Releases
    • Special Features
    • Students & Education
    • Technology
  • Resources
    • OPT Issues
    • Industry Links
  • Services
  • Subscribe
  • Contact opt

opt MAGAZINE

The Best Resource for Eyecare Professionals

Daily Soft Contact Lenses 2016

June 21, 2016 by opt

Daily Soft Contact Lenses 2016

I have seen the soft contact lens market accelerate in exciting ways over the past 20 years. Companies are trying to stay ahead of what patients want and for the most part, they have been doing an excellent job. Soft contact lenses that have out-performed their usefulness have been discontinued. Companies are changing their names such as Ciba Vision, now Alcon, and Vistakon, … [Read more...]

Electronic Contact Lenses and What They Can Do

March 1, 2016 by opt

Electronic Contact Lenses and What They Can Do

Science Fiction has come of age. Tiny electronic circuits are being embedded into contact lenses that will enable them to achieve a level of sophistication that is hard to imagine. Babak Parviz is an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington. His specialty is bio-nanotechnology. He uses techniques to integrate functional electronic devices … [Read more...]

Contact Lens Do’s and Don’ts

March 1, 2016 by opt

Contact Lens Do’s and Don’ts

Contact Lenses... Opticians are generally professionally diligent when it comes to instructing patients on the proper cleaning and wearing schedule of contact lenses. Unfortunately, I believe much more of the information that patients need to safely and effectively wear contact lenses is withheld by opticians, who for whatever reason, assume the information is known or … [Read more...]

About OPT Magazine

Content/Accuracy
Everything in the magazine should be accurate, but there’s always the possibility we got something wrong. If you find something that’s not right, please let us know. That being said - I’m a magazine, not a doctor. Nothing here should be construed as medical advice, or assumed to be completely, 100%, definitely correct.
Please don’t reproduce our content without our consent. If you’d like to do that, please give us a heads up and I’m sure we can work something out. We like people reading our stuff, and if you ask, we’ll probably say yes.
Unlike most magazines, we definitely endorse everything we run. All of the products you find in this magazine are awesome, and you should definitely buy and/or use them. If we don’t agree with something, we don’t print it.

Published whenever we get around to it.

Recently OPT’D

  • Letter from the Editor January 25, 2018
  • Professional Cheese January 16, 2018
  • Quality Photochromics January 16, 2018
  • Quality Lens Designs January 16, 2018
  • Quality vs Price January 16, 2018

Find Somethin’

Stay Connected

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in