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Originally Posted by classicman
Heed this advice. Online buying is great if you know all your important info and the style of glasses are the same. Oh and hope you know what that really means.
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Right - buy a commodity on line. A roll of scott toilet paper is the same at the store or on line. IMHO, glasses are not a commodity. :shrug:
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Originally Posted by classicman
Spexx - Don't most optometrists know all this as well? I thought an ophthalmologist was more for serious medical issues. I thought most places had an optometrist in them, well the more reputable ones anyway.
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Ophthalmologist - mainly health of eye, performs surgery, some don't even do refractions, can't be bothered with eyewear.
Optometrist - mainly vision (refractions), can manage eye disease, may fit eyewear, but their (approximately) 2 hours of classroom eyeglass learning does not prepare them well for in-depth eyeglass dispensing. They're more interested in fitting contact lenses.
Optician - Almost entirely eyewear, some states allow Opticians to refract.
Whenever a patient comes in with problems with their glasses, regardless of where they got the glasses, I always analyze the glasses first, and give the doctors my opinion of the problem.