My interest in eye care goes waaaayy back to early childhood. My dad was in the Lion’s Club and their philanthropy was sight conservation. My mom volunteered to run the amblyopia clinics for preschoolers in our area in conjunction with the Lion’s club and the health department. My 6th grade science project was about eye health. I started wearing glasses just in time for 7th grade and when I was in college I joined Delta Gamma, whose philanthropy is sight conservation and aid to the blind. I even spent almost 10 years working in ophthalmologist offices working my way up to Ophthalmic Technician. So as you can see eye care has been an important area of my life for over 40 years!
One company that has been prevalent throughout that time is Zeiss. In the ophthalmologist’s offices we always used Zeiss optics. Zeiss has added some great, easy to understand, educational tools to their website. These tools explain everything from when you and your children should have eye exams, to the differences between optometrists and ophthalmologists and what an optician does. There is a great section on questions to ask your eye doctor at your next exam and lots of information on age related vision changes.
I am overdue for new glasses and since I now wear progressive lenses this is a very expensive proposition. While I was checking out the Zeiss educational tools, I learned a lot about the Zeiss Individual® which is the first progressive lens to integrate how your frames, face and prescription work together for a one-of-a-kind lens that is precisely personalized for the wearer. ZEISS technology is used to create these customized progressive lenses, which are clinically proven to be preferred by consumers over conventional progressive lenses to improve their vision and quality of eyesight. My current eye care provider doesn’t offer this technology so I will be visiting a Zeiss Individual certified provider on my next visit.
Take some time and check out the educational tools so that you can be a more informed patient and consumer.
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I was very impressed with info provided by Zeiss Lenses. My dad is legally blind and I’ve had glasses since kindergarten. So, eye sight has been an important issue in my life since I was young as well.
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I’ll have to check them out. Everybody in my house (including me) wears glasses.
wow, who knew you had such eye knowledge? so neat!! i found that Weiss website really helpful, esp for those of us “over 40” (grumble)
WOW! Thanks for all the information. The Lion’s Club rock!
thanks for your work, its really awesome. keep posting more blogs like this