Originally Posted by
QDO1
if you scroll back in this forum you will find a user called sandy AKA amanda AKA a few other names... if you scroll back even further, you will still see the same poster posting questions
before judging what my post meant, be sure to read ALL of the posts, all of the (many) threads all the way through (not just the recent ones)
I am happy to offer you advice, but many on here are tierd of forensically going through products, in all of thier intracasies, over and over again
When I dispense a patient face to face, I am taking into account the patient as a whole person - what they used to wear, what they want to wear, their hobbies, occupation, prescription and other details like visions, and how thier eyes work together - lets call this for arguments sake - a hollistic approach
Consumers tend to come on the board and ask a question - what AR is better A/B If we lept into tensile strengths, Mohs and trasmittance, we would probrably loose most consumers. then the same consumers ask us whats better lens A or B. I judge a lens on about 20 criteria, and I assume most other professionals do too. then a few people pitch in an answer, and the consumer leaps back in with just one of the criteria we consider. that is a frustrating recipie for going round and round in circles
the difficulty of dispensing at a distance is: a holistic approach with a patient, requires careful matching of the lens. The weight we put on each variable, varies from person to person. Consumers do not want to absorb the fact that dispensing presbyopes is always a comprimise - there isnt an ultimate anything. The professionals judgement is to find you the best all round comprimise, not the ultimate lens
When I say - "go find a competent, trusted, qualified professional" that is because I know that in reality, that is the best advice I can give you. If you ask me a specific question about a lens - of course I can answer it, but many of us feel that the consumer has little comprehension of the relevance of the answer - within the context of all of the other variables that need to be considered at the same time - in the holistic sense
What you are paying for... when you buy a pair of spectacles, from a competent, trusted, qualified professional - is that professionals judgement, and fitting skills - the actual lens that professional chooses will be, in that professionals judgement the best comprimise for you
Lets consider 3 senarios
one practitioner recommends you old technology: soloution A for £200
the second sells you the most "advanced" lens on the price list for £400
the third sells you a mid-range lens for £300
what's the right answer for you? - potentially all of them, but now lets look at what really happens (one version of events) - the first practitioner recognises that you only need a simple soloution, and executes it perfectly, the second is a sales assistant that actually knows nothing about lenses, and sold you the most expensive lens on the price list, which incidentally has really poor optics for your prescription, and the third did what his company policy dictated (yep that happens)
there are as many versions of events as there are consumers and professionals / salespersons
that is precisly why I always recommend building a relationship with a competent qualified optician, and taking the advice from them. By all means ask them ot explain thier decisions, they will be the only one in the above scenario, that will be able to
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