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coming up we will be on location that azman i care specialist in cambodia
maryland discussing the benefits apply focal contacts and how they can help you
see clearly at all distances with one of this region stop i care specialist
doctor or when azman
doctor has been graduated from the illinois college of optometry and has
been in private practice since nineteen seventy seven
he has received many awards for excellence in optometry including
recognition for his participation in the vision u_s_a_ project anne is a member
of the american optometric association and the maryland optometric association
amman others
welcome back doctor has been
thank you for having me and i appreciate that though it's our pleasure we've got
a lot more to talk about today
and i wanted to begin by asking you
if you could start by telling us doctor as men just so we have an idea of what
we're looking at how many americans
where contacts at the approximate ten to fifteen percent of american population
were contact lenses
bagels around
thirty to thirty five million people in the u_s_a_ were contacts
now in the category of all contacts there is a variety of context either by
football contacts
and single vision subs categories of them also
and the by focal length is one of my big specialties
on them because we have the baby boomers
these baby boomers are not interested wearing reading glasses
and they want to get rid of the readers with a bicycle glances and that's why
the
big interests advisable contact lenses
well i can tell you right now that's a substantial portion of the population by
the way inside that number you mentioned a few moments ago iraq
what uh... basically follow that up by asking if you can palace about the
bifocals
okay recently because of the baby boomer situation in the great need for bb
rumors were
iriverah glasses
the manufacturers and a lot of the uh... research scientist
investing a lot of time and money
in developing new designs in a new
new jurors for by full context
basically they're many different designs of contact survivable context
somber better for certain individuals depending upon the parameters their
motivation there for visual needs
the kind of ours they have
procure layer make up their live makeup
so there are many different types and we have to decide
which type of bifocals contact lens
suits and their personal needs
now that
begs me to ask you
what are the benefits of of the by focal lens is as compared to the traditional
lands as i've been out there
many years we'd only have single vision contact lenses and therefore the people
that are over flutes level use a major forty years of age for that's when
patients usually need to wear readers were bifocals
so before the development of by football contacts
these individuals have to worry yours over there
by flipping over their contact lenses
they gave up their contacts because they're just tired of wearing readers of
the contents of the way back to their clearances
sewed now with a new innovation
we mail
patients can now be ridiculous is completely
not have to depend on the glances
they just put our country was in the morning
that is our by formal contacts and have
farid freedom complete freedom
from their readers
very impressive
and certainly good to know that that's now available for us now who would you
say for the viewers out there that are watching right now
would you say he's a good candidate for this by vocal and swell any individual
that
it at this stage that they have to worry declares his were but will go is is
really a good candidate
so motivation is the number one
factor
if behar if they want to work at the possible contacts and res one motivation
is very important because by fickle content was
far more
time-consuming to prescribe
when the patient so i guess for is coming back into the office for many
visits
and on the dock decide
to prescribe the context of all the more precision
so high motivation is
and then once the patient has a motivation and they
find the high care practitioner
that they decide when prescribing the contacts
the um... it
then the doctor will do the proper
evaluation for the battle going on tax and decide
it that individuals a good candidate based when the valuation with different
departments looking for
categories in the evaluation when that will help you
if they are quick and it or not
that certainly makes sense
now are there any the restrictions
for folks regarding he's by far the lenses such as the wage restrictions of
the elliott alarmed
you could be eighty years old i have pasted review five nine years or at
least uncertain
forty one years old reported results or there's no eight restrictions whatsoever
can you please describe the contact lens evaluation that a patient would be
looking at
i know it varies i'm sure based on each patient's needs but just in a general
sense so we have an idea of what we're looking at
generally speaking in the order to prescribe content by for a specific by
for will contact lenses
their opinion
proper way
the patient needs to go through a bifocals contact lens evaluation
and i'll go through with the different uh...
part of examination the very general way part one is from rwanda is
to do a case history to find out the patients taking any medication
has a systemic diseases of the of the body
for example if hypertension or diabetes
because they can have
the actual
here layer
on if it doesn't have a patient has light b_t_u_s or hypertension in the
taking medication for it
we have to discuss that in
try to find a way to make sure they're even aware the lenses with comfort
the other part of the um... equation devaluation is
doing a dry ari sheer analysis
the number one reason why patients
and wearing contact lenses especially by for work on taxes because if they have
dry eyes
so in the evaluation we will have to permit the patient has dry eyes or not
if they have a dryer we have to
categorized
what type of dries week treated properly
if the patient has a dry with a tree to drive problem
and then prescribe the contact lenses
so that's another part of the valuation in very very important port because
the number one resolve reiterate for
still your of wearing powerful context is due to dry eyes
another part of the valuation is doing the refraction
fine-tuning the prescription ok for four-way end up close
uh... and other parties
taking measurements of the quarry here
measurements of the people
so finney by formal contact lens involves more programmers more precision
furthermore measurements to take
when you compare it to
none by focal confidence with the very time consuming on evaluation yes indeed
what should one consider
when we're thinking of getting used by focal contact lenses is there anything
that you could mention for all of us that we should take into consideration
well number one i leavitt
i come back to talk about motivation factor patients have a very good reason
why they went over by phone contact lenses and the number one reason why
patients want
is a way that river glasses
on but i have some patient of walked in say they want to get contracts because
her friend has contact
that is not a good motivational reason
that will not that patient for likely will not succeed so motivation is number
one and number two the patient needs to find the right
contact lens practitioner
so the patient is thought about
getting rid of their glasses getting river bifocals our readers
and they want to get by for context we need to locate
aldape
the a contract when specialist
that's up specializes in by formal contact lenses mainly because it's very
time consuming
uh... like i said i'll reiterate
it takes more time when the patient support
and more patients when the darker side loss of the prescribe these consequences
yes
now we've only got a few moments left
in you and your practice as men i care specialist here in somalia maryland have
developed the reputation of excellence doctor outspend within your field in
specialty and i wanted to ask you before i let you go
what would you say separates you apart from any of the other eye care
specialist in this region
that's a great question crisil unfortunate lot of patients people out
there for a couple
contact lens print practitioners are the same and we're not we're different
one of the things that separates us from other practitioners is
we have a committed staff
pipe organ whitehead
in practice instance nineteen seventy five
and we've been candid too
giving the finest quality i care for every individual
each patient is very successful so this commitment
we have passion we love what we do
we stay up to the research for the time
we have to most latest in technology technology is very very important to
have
and with his new technology in instrumentation
music purchased that instrument that we we do some research make sure it's a
proper instruments that we need for a practice to do can get a better visual
al comp
on some doctors have all the technology
they'll have a passionate caring and commitment and thus they have to do with
they will not be successful in the page will not be successful and most
important over-all
we pay attention to details
we are super meticulous
we're very personalized at our practice yes indeed i know for a fact i mean
talk to some of your patience that you have many many happy testimonials
patients who keep coming back to you and everything i have a need
for anything related to their eyes and and certainly reputation speaks for
itself doctor has been in
on that now not like to thank you
for joining us again being our guest on our program i thank you very much for
having me over to appreciate it
our pleasure we love to have you back on again ok cruise ship