i.Scription lens

[Pinas]

Has anyone dispensed i.Scription lenses? What's the rate of success specially for 1st time wearers of progressives and old wearers of different prog. designs? tnx.:p

[Yeap]

Welcome to optiboard..

Is something really new at our area.. me as well looking for some feedback here..
so you have a RVT at your practice?

[Pinas]

Most of our patients are complaining that they cannot adapt to i.scription lens. Specially freesign wearers. The px's have problem with distortions in the periphery and they get headaches. Not sure if it's the design or the power. Maybe you know that with i.Scription they optimized the power of the lens and takes into account the higher order aberrations of the eye.

[Yeap]

ya, in fact that is what i understand from the sales rep here. like i have said, i never fit any of them.. but i was surprise from your px's feedback.. as it claims it able to correct HOA and the vision should be better.. especially to a bigger and more complicated Rx.

[Yeap]

Regarding Zeiss product maybe you can try consult Darryl. i'm sure he able to solve your question..

[Yeap]

found this thread bout i-scription lens.. ope it helps..

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28318

[Pinas]

Presently we have a guest from CZV. He's been helping us and training us about this lens. We were able to dispensed i.scriptions to some of our clients. VA was very good but we are having problems with px's who has medical problems. I think they are not good candidate for i.scriptions.

Thanks

[sachmet]

I'm dispensing i.Scription lenses since February 2008. Since then I only had two clients which didn't like them at all. Around 70% tell me that they see better then before. The rest don't see much of a difference.
Around 90 percent of all sold i.Scription glasses were Gradal Individual FrameFit, the rest SV (some of them individuals) and a GT2-3D PAL's. Most clients switched from Rodenstock Impression and Multigressiv.

Ok, most of my clients needed new glasses because the power wasn' t right anymore. But what matters is: they can see better (clearer, less stressful) than before and I'm their hero :D

The key to this success is probably that I do all i.Scription prescriptions by myself. Because you need to give every little bit of cyl even if it's only 0.25 (most Dr.'s here dont's prescripe such low cyl's).

That's my point of view :)

Cheers,
Daniel.

PS: I hope my writing is understandably - I usually write in (Swiss-) German.

[Pinas]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the feedback. That's good to know that most of your clients like i.Scription.
Where I practice, we started in May only.
90% of our clients are Freesign prog. wearers. They're comfortable with their existing Rx.
We only upgrade their lenses to i.Scription. We thought i.Scription is better or maybe as good as freesign.

The feedback we get from our old clients weren't good. They said fs is easier to use. They can focus in all areas of lens with minimal distortion in the periphery. In short they see and feel better with fs.

For some clients who are used to different design or first time wearers, they adapt faster than fs wearers. That's why we are confuse, was it the prescription, design or maybe too much expectations of customers from i. Scription lens.

To solve this problem, CZV send one of his people in our shop. He trained and help us in prescribing i.S to our px's. Usually we ask CZV to send the final i.Scription Rx then we call our client to come and try the Rx before proceeding with the order. The procedure is we check the VA with I.S Rx in the ref. room then we compare with px's current Rx. If i.S gives better acuity, we have to check again the va by placing +/_ 0.25 or 0.12 in the trial frame while px is looking at far. This time px is not in the ref. room. px is just sitting in the shop looking at a distant object at far. We are getting different result most of the time px prefers a different power.

We end up prescribing fs because i.s power gives a different Rx.

Do you do same procedure? Is it enough just to examine the px in the ref. room then ask the px to walk around with the sr?