I use technologies like the OPD to give me a better understanding is where the astigmatism lies, to give me a more accurate corneal reading for keratometry measurements which are really important to determine the best fit lens. At the end of the day that’s really what it’s all about.

The OPD-Scan III is a great way to check your surgical technique post-operatively and one of the most common post op problems, whether its LASIK or PRK, is dry eye.  You can show a patient, on the OPD, that they are perfectly centered, no prescription but you see all these little speckles?  That means your eye is bone dry and it is ruining your optics. You can also subtract out corneal aberrations from the whole eye aberrations so you can find out if there is an early cataract that is going to make a 50 year old patient unhappy after a LASIK procedure.  The OPD is such an invaluable tool - being able to sort that out; it educates me and it educates the patient and that maybe we should be talking about a refractive lens exchange instead.

After using the TRS for the past two and a half years, I would never want to go back to using the old phoropter. In our Pontiac location, the TRS has made it possible to train our technicians to refract. This allows us more face to face time with patients to educate them about conditions and answer their questions.

The OPD-Scan III helps me reach a goal of zero spherical aberration with my cataract patients. A few years ago, I studied how accurately and predictably dynamic skiascopy, the wavefront technology used measures spherical aberrations and guides IOL choice. When I chose from three different IOLs based on data from the device, postoperative spherical aberration for 40 patients was just +0.019±0.051 μm.  When we can virtually eliminate spherical aberration for our cataract patients, we increase patient satisfaction. In particular, when patients have other visual problems that we can’t correct, even a relatively small change, such as reducing nighttime glare, can make a big difference in their lives.