Poly is a solid lens material and for the price is one of the best values in the business. I am a +6.00 and use spectralite, which I prefer. I have made my lenses in most indexes up to 1.71 and there...
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Poly is a solid lens material and for the price is one of the best values in the business. I am a +6.00 and use spectralite, which I prefer. I have made my lenses in most indexes up to 1.71 and there...
Knife-edge is not the best way of communicating to the lab. On a plus lens request a specific edge thickness. If you want thin plus lenses use a frame with as close to a circle as possible. In other...
In Ohio if you work for an OD or Ophthalmologist you are not required to have a license to dispense. If doctor is on vacation or decides to take a day off the front desk staff or unlicensed employee...
Shanbaum
You are correct it is that A B relationship that is important. Index of refraction is secondary. Decentration is of no consequence.
Bill
The lens itself is not that thick. Its spherical equivalent is a little over 3 diopters. The Spectralite would be a good choice. The main thing to consider is a frame that has an "A" and a "B"...
We have the answer to readers and it is a better answer for your client. They are variable focus reading lenses. The lenses like Office, Access, and Continuum, just to name a few. These types of...
Check the Rx, base curves, optical centering etc. If the instructions of the doctor are duplicated correctly you have done your job. When you started discussing the child's psychiatric issues with...
Al did you say his doctor or his accountant said it did not warrant a change at this time. From my experience with this kind of change the patient would certainly notice it.
Too many doctors...
Great thread, you folks certainly know your stuff
What do you think of repairing broken frames? Is this something that should be limited to only the best alloys? Can a frame like a mid priced Viva...
What material is being used in the injection molded frames coming from Asia? Is it Cellulose acetate or some other generic plastic? What kind of precautions should be taken when handling this kind of...
We should give our customers that kind of attention all the time. The problem is that the rules of the game have changed. VSP, Davis, Spectera and many others have become players. The margins that we...
Jerry you are my hero. I would love to have been a fly on the wall the day you visited that Pearle. I would have to be very sure that a pair of spectacles was wrong before I would tell a customer...
The vast majority of frames carried by all manufacturers have no minimum. The hope is that if a rep gets a few frames into the store that the inventory will grow. I always felt frames are like weeds,...
I am anismetropic and most of my life I was OD +. 50 OS+4.00. My left eye functioned but did not quite have the acuity of my right eye. When I did go into a multifocal I did not have any prismatic...
Selling is an ethical process. Selling allows a knowledgeable professional to educate a consumer about available solutions to their optical situation. I define selling as education backed by...
The lens is definitely out of the box thinking. I did see examples of the product. It is limited in powers at this time. I did find the peripheral vision to be outstanding. People who have specific...
Al,
I do not understand why she would get Lasik in the first place. If she was a professional tennis player maybe this would have been a good idea. I doubt her total satisfaction will last for long....
Do glasses cost too much and we are taking advantage of the consumer? Who is making all that profit? I know in Ohio it is not the optician. We have a hard time justifying paying $30,000 a year to a...
In order to recoup profits optometrists had to facilitate the demise of opticians. They had managed care take over their market share and they had to survive some how. The first thing to look at when...
The Varilux add is oblique and the public may not understand the commercial clearly. The only thing I want to say to Varilux is, Thank You. Its good to see a major optical company launch a national...
Lenny I use Continuum or Shamir Desk Top but I believe they all work the same way. Just give the lab the near correction and they will apply the appropriate dynamic power.I believe Access has only...
Great subject and the points made have been important. The fact remains that the customer pays our salary. If glasses cost $99.95, how many do we need to sell in order to pay the dispenser a quality...
Is this the future of opticianry? We all may be dinosaurs.
I do believe that the service we provide is necessary. I do not think consumers can get what professional opticians offer on the Internet....
AR is not for everybody. It is our responsibility though, to educate the consumer to the facts about AR. People do not need AR coating, high index lenses, expensive frames, eye exams every year,...
I do like the term "piece". Such as this is a piece from the new Matsuda collection. I think of ophthalmic frames as a form of jewelry and, as jewelry is often presented as a piece, we can easily...