Typically, finalizing the refraction now saves me several minutes per patient. In the office with the EPIC system, technicians complete the refraction prior to the doctor seeing the patient. Both ways of performing the refractions allow extra time to talk about lens choices and visual needs.

Refractions can be stressful. Patients have anxieties about giving the right answers, and we always worry when we have a patient who fatigues easily, wondering how accurate the measurements are. With the Marco system, we can complete the refraction accurately in less time. It’s much easier for the patients,” she says.”

The TRS system provides a level of refractive detail not attainable with traditional manual phoropter use. The TRS can refract down to 1-degree axis and 0.12 diopter power steps (for sphere). For some patients, such detailed outcomes can make the difference between an acceptable and an exceptional refractive correction. We now have ophthalmic laboratories that can fabricate lenses to those levels of specificity. This raises the bar in terms of the quality of vision correction we can provide for our patients. 

Manual refraction has some subjective uncertainty and takes time, but the OPD-Scan gives you a starting point that’s very close to the final prescription in 2 seconds per eye. When you think about that and the total OPD-Scan time of about 2 minutes, we’re getting an accurate refraction and all the other measurements in a short time, which is great for patient flow through the office.