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Been a while since I was surfacing but I remember some of what I used to see...

I've seen orange peel defects happen when a coating unit goes bad. Had this happen a lot with hard coaters for...

Wow. It has been a long time. I've been busy with grad school and just working a busy practice so getting on OB hasn't really crossed my mind. I just got a notification on my phone this morning...

WOW! That is unbelieveable. Even with non-compliancy, the lenses still looked ok?? No neo but how did her endothelial cells look?? how about K's or topo? any distortion? I find it hard to believe...

I can't seem to find a cheat sheet for RGP manufacturing tolerances anywhere. I know that the Efron text mentioned earlier in the thread has such a thing in the appendix, but that's at home and I'm...

... or are they gel hot packs like the Quantum Heat packs? :confused:

Hey folks, I have another question:

Does anyone know of a resource that has a listing of specific soft lens specs, like OZD, lens edge thicknesses and other technical data? I know that the TQ is...

I would have loved to fall into that kind of work, but it's so specialized and rare that it is hard to find that kind of work (or training for that matter) where I am (which is why it sucks to be in...

Chip:

you impress me yet again. I wish I had someone like you to apprentice under, I might actually know something by now. :D

Chip:

are you still hand-building the franklins yourself? If so, you really are the man.

on a side note: I once asked the old-timer I used to work with to show me and he refused saying "boy,...

thanks for the chart, Harry. I'm going to leave that on my desktop from now on. I don't get to really design RGPs that much right now, mainly because we do a lot of diagnostic fittings first rather...

The tear flow concept was in the back of my mind when I made my last post, but for some reason I thought it had much more to do with the actual mechanics of the fit (but, if the lens don't fit right,...

where I worked before... that was a good day. One OD working a 10 hour shift would see about 40-50 patients, sometimes more. All they are there to do is to get that patient from the chair to the...

I think I understand what you mean... so, in your experience, does giving a wider PC give the lens more surface area to collect the tear film with, thereby allowing for centration in a flatter fit...

wow, chip... that's great info!! Thanks for the tips!

:cheers:

I do have a question, on reviewing the post... why do you make your P.C.'s a little larger? to account for asphericity on the...

eww... I don't want to though! He's got bad breath! :p

Seriously, having seen it done a variety of ways, we are definitely do not have that type of situation in the office I work in. We see as...

I'm learning how to refract at the moment... the doc is kind of giving me a sink or swim instruction, however. I usually take the patient back and plug in the AR readings (we have Marco automated...

I feel bad that I haven't been posting any questions... instead I'm runnin' my mouth off in other threads like a yahoo instead of learning something, which is why I come here... so... I have a...

I believe it's because of patient perception (inhumanely uncomfortable is a phrase I heard once) and doctors fearing the patients will balk at the initial costs of lenses (even though they are...

I used their trivex lenses while with ECCA. Fairly good quality, I think they were the first exposure I had to double aspheric lenses, which seemed to work out fairly well for patients that were...

I agree... Optomap should not be used in place of a DFE, but only as an assistive technology for the doctors.

I don't use the bubble... I threw it away. The service techs roll their eyes at me...

we use it extensively... I'd say 95% of our exams have Optomap images attached to them. We also use a standard fundus camera for a closer look at the posterior pole. The role defined for the Optomap...

That's why I failed!! :hammer:

I never really understood much of HIPPA outside of just keeping records private and confidential (it's all I was told I needed to know... shows how much the bosses know). I see Chris has posted...

supposedly Wavetouch technologies is also entering the Wavefront-guided contact lens arena with Marco. The 3D Wave instrument can be set up to send the data directly to Wavetouch for lens...

nope. the people you talk to there are in a box. they were put there by Ophthonix. they only know what the man in the upstairs office tells them.

across the board, most of the people you talk to...