New Crizal Alizé Features Improved Cleanability

Essilor of America is launching a “new and improved” version of its Crizal Alizé anti-reflective lenses, according to the company. The upgraded product, which offers better cleanability, is a full product replacement for the previous generation of Crizal Alizé lenses, which was discontinued on Jan. 12.
Crizal Alizé lenses set the [...]

Ocular Complications of Laser-Assisted Eyebrow Epilation

This article reported on three patients with eye pain and photophobia following laser epilation of the eyebrow region. The eye examination included visual acuity, slit-lamp examination, tonometry and fundoscopy. The follow-up period was three months.
Each patient had conjunctival hyperemia in one or both eyes and anterior chamber pigmentary cells. One patient presented with posterior synechiae, [...]

New device seen as speeding glaucoma operations, post-surgical recovery.

Illinois’ Belleville News Democrat (2/12) reported that a new device called the Trabectome “speeds glaucoma operations and post-surgical recovery.” The device works by reducing “pressure in the eye without the need for the filtration or shunts used in traditional glaucoma surgery,” allowing “surgeons to remove tissue so fluid more easily drains out of the eye.” [...]