The use of the OPD III for premium IOL patients has become an integral part of what we do as a practice.  It is not uncommon for patients to be referred into our practice who have had multifocal lenses or Toric implants done by other surgeons and who have done wonderful surgical results, really wonderful surgical outcomes, and for one reason or another they’re not altogether pleased.  And bringing a patient like that in and sitting them down in a machine that can give you an answer in a very short period of time that can lead you to a diagnosis as to why it is a patient may be unhappy is a remarkable feat, and certainly it is something that patients respond to quickly within a moment or two sitting in your exam [unintelligible] looking at a slip of paper or on your electronic medical records that tells you a few things with regard to the location of the implant or residual refractive air that oftentimes goes unnoticed with other machinery or even in a clinical exam, truly leads itself to an opportunity to achieve better patient outcomes. 

The tilt back Marco chair has power assisted buttons on both sides. There’s a flip pedal on the side which can raise the chair up and down or adjust the height of the chair. There’s no bending over at all. These chairs have a lifespan of about 15 to 20 years.

The OPD-Scan III helps us to understand the reasons patients complain whether they came for the first visit after getting glasses from the optometrist and looking into refractive surgery of a premium surgery so we can have a satisfactory outcome.  To me, practice efficiency is more important than seeing how many patients you can see in an hour, it also means consistent outcomes that you and the patients aim for.  So you get practice efficiency from the OPD for many reasons: 1) Takes up very little space with all-in-one tests in one station 2) The speed of doing the test and the ease of which the staff can get trained and comfortable is excellent with repeatable consistent data which is very important to me when using technologies like these.  I have happy patients, less re-treatments, more consistent outcomes - that is the higher level of excellency.  

The OPD III allows you to take measurements and refractions with different pupil sizes. It will actually tell you the pupil size and what refraction is over that. You can see a meopic pupil and a photopic pupil and get the refraction for each one.