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Horopters measure the amount of Horus in lenses. You can get ahoric lenses, but I find they have a lot of Ra in them then

I know in one of John's OpticianWorks videos on office lenses, he recommended waiting until a patient was at about a +2.00 add before giving the office lenses a harder look. Before that and I think...

I once had a doctor tell me how it was literally impossible to measure prism in PALs. They were then dumbfounded when I explained it was explicitly called a prism reference point and that's how you...

We are no longer requiring masks in the office. That said, if a patient comes in wearing a mask, we'll mask up for them without asking (they've already visually made the statement that the feel more...

You guys wanna know what's FUN*? Doing COB claims on the modern eclaim!

*Fun not guaranteed, fun not available in most offices

We also switched from open door to appointment only following COVID. As mentioned above, holy crap it helps streamline pickups and gives you a sense for when people are coming in. It also helps...

Man, from a provider standpoint, Spectera and Davis aren't great. From a consumer's standpoint, however, it probably seems pretty solid. Let's look at a poly Varilux X with Sapphire and...

Ok, so what is it DriveSafe actually does, then? Is there any difference between it and a standard or free-form lens of the same material? Is it all down to just their AR? We're an Essilor office...

To proceed a little further upon this topic, I am somewhat interested in the Zeiss DriveSafe lenses, but we don't have a Zeiss lab we work with. Are they just AR lenses w/ a little tint in them? ...

Yeah, all the Crizal ARs have that backside UV add-on charge (eyemed does this as well, but they just have the one UV charge). I've just taken to adding it to the order, whatever. The real deuced...

Lulu Guiness has some fun stuff, and I use it as an option for my "Ladies with Large Noggins" fits. Brendel is a line that I love the stylings of, and we do ok with it, but might be a slight...

Sure, I love seeing their looks of abject terror as I bend their frames in half. I just wish frame warmers weren't so comparatively expensive for being fancy hairdryers so I could get one at my...

Hey all, I just got a Camber job in (Walman's Power Plus branded one). It's got all the digital conversion values on the order sheet, looks more or less fine, until I get to the Add power. Pt is...

Wait, Star Trek IV is real?!

Liz Claiborne is like the platonic ideal of "middle-aged lady who will pay a little bit more but doesn't want anything wild". Anne Klein channels that same energy. I also do well with with...

Not to be a dick about this, but how often are you getting patients who would A.) want that full spectrum of lenses; and B.) be willing to pay for it? I absolutely talk up office style lenses (and...

We've been using UV sanitizers. That said, the main method of transmission for COVID isn't through touch, so while I try to get each and every one in there, I'm not stressing if I miss one or two...

Yeah, I looked at that previously. This isn't a case of those markings being too light, they are straight up absent. The X is pretty easily read, so I should be able to pick up SOMETHING of any...

We requested the X from our lab, and they made it the exact same way, so I guess it WAS a Varilux X. Was just really strange that it didn't even have reference markings in the lenses, or an add...

We had a patient in who has the strangest lens, and we're all stumped what it could be. There is an add of SOME sort in there, which I read at ~ +1.25. But the jump/distortion in that zone is super...

I actually got some for myself, both the Eyezen and the Power Boost from Walman. The first set I got, I honestly can't say I noticed it much, unless I really tilted my head and tried looking in the...

Dang, we just call the lab we send our VSP orders to and say "I need to do a scratch warranty for patient XXXXX," no screwing around with remake authorizations needed. We do nearly everything with...

Four and a half months since posting this thread, I'm ordering the first set for a patient today. His last pair is messed as heck, so I'm hoping he'll be over the moon with these ones

Man, at my last shop we used just some small totes in a drawer with the patient order rubber-banded around the case. Set them in alphabetical order (or date received order, or whatever floats your...

Not only that, but then you run into competing with yourself on whatever your profitable PALs are. And the attendant trouble-shooting. And the people saying "Well, can I get that lens, but pay...