Looks like she's a unilateral aphakic (left eye)that would explain the left reading add and Rx. I would assume she must be at least six years old otherwise the Rx would be a lot higher.
I'd agree...
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Looks like she's a unilateral aphakic (left eye)that would explain the left reading add and Rx. I would assume she must be at least six years old otherwise the Rx would be a lot higher.
I'd agree...
I would prescribe a balance lens for patients who have a non seeing or very poorly seeing eye. I might also do it where a patient is so anisometropic that they cannot fuse their prescription,...
My advice to a patient would not depend upon their prescription but on their vision without the spectacle/contact lens correction and their visual acuity with. I would also take into account whether...
Liked the Voltairte quote, I'd attempt the one from the French General at the Charge of the Light Brigade but I'm sure I'd get it wrong.
I'll stick with plus ca change...
No particular feelings either way on Essilor, surely though if you disagree with someone's opinion then reasoned argument is more appropriate than boycotts.
I can't say I'm partial to the French's...
I've always liked the addage you get what you pay for if it's free that pretty much sums up its value!
Mind you that doesn't mean that if it's more expensive it's necessarily worth the mark...
Patients can cope with anisometropia up to 4.00 DS in some cases and have problems with 0.50DS in other cases(particularly where it has been surgically induced). If they are not presbyopic it would...
As someone who is somewhat cynical about the refractive surgery industry (not the technology, which in good hands is pretty reliable) I am unsurprised at the backlash.
We had a proliferation of...
We use a NIDEK auto refractor/keratometer for assessing post operative patients in a Hospital setting in the UK. We have not found the auto refraction to be as helpful as we would have liked as it...
Australia - you may be able to get registration based on your UK qualifications, although they have tightened the rules since the UK made it more difficult for Australian optometrists to work in the...
Associated Optical do the Eschenbach range and I'm fairly sure they have spectacle mounted telescopes with the facility to add the spectacle Rx in front of the eyepiece. I'd have a look at their...
Darn and I was so hoping that either myself or Sarah could do our Gwyneth style acceptance speach :cry: :D :cry: :D :cry: :D
Ah well on with the transmission of the useful and useless and...
If you do have someone with anisometropic aniseikonia (frequently caused by cataract surgery)with a large power difference between the eyes you could just give a "balance" lens (a lens balanced for...
Good luck to you in your busy practice and hello from my ivory tower in Hospital optometry.
I have to say whilst I have no particular love for the multiples I don't think you can tar all...
Theoretically you should drop one line of Snellen acuity for each 0.25 of refractive error, on that basis you should drop seven lines. If your best corrected acuity is 20/20 then you should be "off...
Looking into my crystal ball it all looks very cloudy, I have no idea where the optical industry is going or where my profession is going, but then I never have I just enjoy the ride!:D
I have no problem with that, as long as the end point of "refraction" is not regarded entirely as a means to selling someone an optical device but is regarded as an asessment of someone's refractive...
Have a good one :D
I'm curious does the training US "opticians" receive for refracting include binocular vison assessment?
I accept that what most of you are talking about is refraction without any attempt to assess...
From an optometric viewpoint (rather than a lab rat) 0.25 cyls are prescribed not because they "are there" but because they make a subjective difference to the patient's vision and visual comfort....
Interesting debate, in the UK the only professionals allowed to sign a prescription for spectacles are suitably qualified doctors (medical) and optometrists (or ophthalmic opticians). I know that...
Sarah
as I haven't voted yet (and frankly wasn't going to, or even timly) I think it only fair that I now vote for you. It's sort of giving you your vote back, but not quite.
I won't be making...
Working Monday and Tuesday, off the statuatories and back in again on Friday. Mind you I've booked the following week off. No PC work might sort out the woodwork on the bay windows if the weather is...
We still use Franklin split bifocals for those unusual patients who require very different prescriptions at distance and near as John has indicated>
I understand ladies of the Spanish court in the...
A stall is a part of a stable, the seperation of a large room into smaller units "stalls". It's also a place to sell things from as in a "market stall", it's also to put things off, or to cease to go...