Archive for the ‘Practice Info’ Category
3D OCT Eye Scan – get yours now!
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Sports Vision
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010A few months ago, Roni & I attended a SportsVision diploma, after being asked by many of you about glasses for shooting, playing golf and fishing.We learnt about how to train your eyes for sport and how we can improve your game with certain spectacle lenses and prescriptions. We are now in the process of doing research projects based on SportsVision – if you can help, let us know!
Qausia Hassan
Bsc Mc Optom
Retinal nerve fiber layer atrophy is associated with physical and cognitive disability in multiple sclerosis
Sunday, September 12th, 2010Retinal nerve fiber layer atrophy is associated with physical and cognitive disability in multiple sclerosis
Abstract
Background
Studying axonal loss in the retina is a promising biomarker for multiple sclerosis (MS). Our aim was to compare optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Heidelberg retinal tomography (HRT) techniques to measure the thickness of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) in patients with MS, and to explore the relationship between changes in the RNFL thickness with physical and cognitive disability. We studied 52 patients with MS and 18 proportionally matched controls by performing neurological examination, neuropsychological evaluation using the Brief Repetitive Battery-Neuropsychology and RNFL thickness measurement using OCT and HRT.
Results
We found that both OCT and HRT could define a reduction in the thickness of the RNFL in patients with MS compared with controls, although both measurements were weakly correlated, suggesting that they might measure different aspects of the tissue changes in MS. The degree of RNFL atrophy was correlated with cognitive disability, mainly with the symbol digit modality test (r = 0.754, P < 0.001). Moreover, temporal quadrant RNFL atrophy measured with OCT was associated with physical disability.
Conclusion
In summary, both OCT and HRT are able to detect thinning of the RNFL, but OCT seems to be the most sensitive technique to identify changes associated with MS evolution.
If you have MS and would like to have OCT to examine your retinal nerve fibres, call us, on 01924 373697 and ask us for more information.
P Villoslada
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra and Center for Applied Medical Research, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain pvilloslada@unav.es
Broken Window :-(
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010Sadly, on the night of Saturday 4th, one of our shop windows was smashed by a brick. Luckily, only one sheet of glass was smashed so they were unable to get into the shop or take anything.
Can you help? Did you see anything?
Our hero, James, from First Window Surgeon has come to the rescue with his fast service, and the window has been replaced today.
Optical Coherence Tomography, Wakefield
Friday, August 27th, 2010This lady travelled 40min to come and have the 3-D OCT scan which is only provided by a handful of Optometrists in the country.
Dr Hassan completes 1 week dental implant training in California
Thursday, August 19th, 2010Dr Hassan has just returned from a 1 week intensive advanced dental implant training course with Dr Dennis Tarnow. Dr Tarnow is one of the worlds best clinicians in dental implants and, thanks to his work at NYU, his research has developed many techniques we routinely use today.
Certificate presentation by Dr Dennis Tarnow
If you would like to stabilise your loose dentures or enquire about replacing missing teeth with implants, book an appointment with Dr Hassan, Wakefield’s leading Implantologist.
Roni & the Eye Station
Thursday, July 15th, 2010Headaches, Wakefield
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
I have just attended a lecture about headaches given by Stephen Butterworth, Consultant Neurologist at Pinderfields Hospital. He discussed the most common causes of headaches, including migraines, medicines over use headaches, tension headaches and more. It was very interesting, as I regularly have patients who come and talk to me about their headaches, as they can be associated with eye strain. Around 50% of them are eye strain but 50% are not, so it was good to discuss the symptoms of non-ocular headaches and the reasons for why they occur. This helps us when we have a patient with headaches but we cannot find eye strain – we can then refer appropriately to the right professional.
If you have regular headaches, why not come and see us at Pollards? Maybe we could help.
Qausia Hassan
What does a dental assessment include at our Wakefield Dental Practice!
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Everything's Lovely and healthy!
Here at Pollards Optical Dental Clinic in Wakefield, a half an hour intial assessment with Dr Hassan will allow him to inspect the following areas in the mouth:
- We check the jaw joint to make sure that it is healthy, stable, and pain free.
- Check to see if the muscles of the jaw and face are sore and causing headaches.
- We check all the soft tissues for the presence of Oral Cancer.
- We check the gums for the presence of Gum disease, i.e bleeding gums, loose teeth etc
- We look for signs of tooth wear caused by clenching and grinding and acidic foods.
- We look for fillings that might be leaking or have decay around them.
- Include all necassary small radiographs or X-rays to help diagnose any issues you may have.
- We check too see that your bite patterns are stable and not contributing to pain in the jaw joint.
- Inspect the gums for signs of recession.
- Look with high power magnification for the early development of cracks with the teeth.
The above are just a few of the main things that Dr Hassan looks at during our initial inspection appointment. At the end of the appointment we will give you a written estimate of what treatment you require and how much the treatment will cost.