Peer-reviewed journal publications
This compilation of peer-reviewed journal publications showcases Cirta Tooth's commitment to advancing knowledge and understanding in low vision, cerebral visual impairment and paediatric eye care
2025
Tooth, C. and Rogowski, J. 2025. Children with Additional Support Needs Risk Missing Out on Effective Vision Screening: Audit and Survey Considering Attendance Rates and Parent Reported Barriers to Service Access, including Recommendations for Improvement. British and Irish Orthoptic Journal 21(1), pp. 43–50. https://doi.org/10.22599/bioj.451
Cirta Tooth conducted an audit in the NHS paediatric clinic with assistance from Juliusz Rogowski, a medical student. They concluded that children with additional support needs are at risk of missing appropriate eye care due to incomplete screening tests and missed follow-up appointments in the hospital eye service. More could be done to make eye care more accessible for this vulnerable group.
Juliusz subsequently presented our study at the 9th National Undergraduate Paediatric Conference at The University of Glasgow (poster presentation) and at the 4th National Student Ophthalmology Conference (NSOC) at Queen Mary University of London (oral presentation).
2024
Tooth, C., Pilling, R.F. and Woodhouse, M. 2024. Raising awareness of cerebral visual impairment (CVI) through the use of educational videos: One size does not fit all. British Journal of Vision Impairment. https://doi.org/10.1177/02646196231225081
As part of her Masters degree in Clinical Optometry, Cirta Tooth conducted a survey among educational and eye care professionals to compare three short videos about CVI. The project was supervised by Dr Maggie Woodhouse from Cardiff University and professor Rachel Pilling from Bradford University. One of the videos was created by Cirta Tooth and can be watched here:
This publication for BJVI is based on the findings from Cirta Tooth's MSc project.
Cirta Tooth's MSc thesis is available on request.
2022
Tooth Cirta and Cackett Peter. 2022. Vision impairment: To register or not to register? That is the question. British Journal of Vision Impairment, pp.1-12.
Cirta Tooth conducted a survey among ophthalmologists across Scotland to learn more about their understanding of the benefits, the criteria and the process of certification of sight impairment. Confidence about certification criteria was significantly higher for ocular conditions, compared to neurological conditions. The article was co-authored by Peter Cackett, a consultant ophthalmologist at the hospital eye service.
Tooth, Cirta. 2022. Impaired recognition of faces. Royal College of Ophthalmologists- Focus Article. January 2022.
https://www.rcophth.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/College-News-January-2022-FOCUS.pdf
Cirta Tooth was invited by the editor to write a Focus article for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists about impaired face recognition. Face recognition difficulties are common among people with ocular or neurological sight impairment.
2019
Moshtael, Howard; Tooth, Cirta; Antje Nuthmann et al. 2019. Dynamic text presentation on smart glasses: A pilot evaluation in age-related macular degeneration. British Journal of Visual Impairment 38(1) pp. 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264619619889998
Cirta Tooth assisted a PhD student in a project about smart glasses for people with a visual impairment due to macular degeneration. Different text presentations were compared to see if reading speed could be improved for this patient group.