Aqua Clear (Biofinity) Contacts Now in Stock!

We are happy to announce that Aqua Clear (also known as Biofinity) lenses are now in stock and ready to be purchased directly from our inventory. Aqua Clear joins our other in stock products: Aqua Clear 100 and Acuvue Oasys.

What does this mean for you?

No more waiting for your contacts to come in! If you are wearing Aqua Clear lenses and need to order more we will have them in stock and you will not have to wait for your order to come in. Stop in any time to order or call ahead to reserve boxes to pick up.

We do not carry the toric versions of these lenses in stock, but can still order them. Valid prescriptions are required for all contact orders.

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Contact Care Directly from Acuvue

 

 

This infographic has great information about getting contact eye exams, different types of contact lenses, and tips for taking care of your contacts.

 

 

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To learn more about contact lens care please visit the following web-sites:

www.contactlenssafety.org

www.geteyesmart.org

www.aocle.org

www.fda.gov

 

Paraoptemetric Recognition Week

This week is paraoptemetric recognition week. You might be thinking, I know what an optometrist is, I know what an ophthalmologist is, what is a paraoptemetric? The answer is, a paraoptemetric is the person who assists you with everything else in an optometric practice.

They can have a variety of personalized duties or help run everything in the office. Their duties could be any of the following:

• Answering Phones
• Scheduling Appointments
• Prescreening Patients
• Selling Glasses
• Selling Contacts
• Fitting Glasses
• Assessing Patients Needs
• Adjusting Glasses
• Teaching New Contact Wearers to Insert and Remove Contacts
• Insurance billing and filing

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They are often the first person a patient sees and the last person a patient sees in an office. Therefore patient satisfaction is often times in their hands. Many states require paraoptemetrics to be certified, but Nebraska is not one of those states. Although, in many private offices paraoptemtrics are certified with either a CPO or ABO certification.

Have a great week and don't forget to recognize a paraoptemetric in your life!

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Taking Care of Glasses

Taking care of glasses is easy peasy compared to contacts. That's why we like to have younger patients start with glasses and then try contacts. This is where to start.

Putting Them On

To start, when you put them on you want to slide them right over your ears.

• Don't put them on the top of your head and pull them down
• Don't spread the hinges out to get them around your head

Taking Them Off

When you take them off use both hands. If you use one hand all the time one temple will be bowed out more than the other and they will not fit properly.

• When you take them off ALWAYS put them in a case
• ALWAYS put them lenses down in the case

When not to Wear Them

Do not wear them while you are sleeping. That's an easy one. Also, we do not recommend wearing them while you are doing dangerous activities such as playing sports, or doing construction. It is better to wear certified safety glasses while performing these activites.

How to Clean Them

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Always use some form of moisture such as a spray or premoistened wipes and an approved cloth such as a microfiber cloth or other 100% cotton fabric. Whatever fabric you choose to clean your glasses with make sure cleaning your glasses is the only thing you use it for. For example, no using the shirt you are wearing and no cleaning them with your napkin at dinner.

• It's OK to clean your microfiber cloth or 100% cotton cloth as long as you do it by hand and with a mild detergent

Keeping them in One Piece

ALWAYS put them in a case when you are not wearing them. Keep a case in your car, at work, and at home if you have to. As long as you are not hard on your glasses I would recommend bringing them in once every six months to have screws tightened/replaced, nosepads tightened/replaced, deep cleaned, and straightened out. At this time too we can see if they are in need of replacement for any reason and you are well within your warranty. If you are hard on your glasses I recommend once every two to three months.

• Treat your sunglasses like regular glasses
• NEVER set them on top of a car
• Pay special attention when on boats, once they hit the water you will never see them again!
• It's a bad idea to wear them while on roller coasters

Hopefully this helps with first time glasses wearers. Just remember to treat your new glasses with care and they will last long for you.

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Taking Care of Soft Contacts

So 10 years ago you came in for your very first contact exam. It went great! You got fantastic contacts that felt great on your eyes and you got great vision out of them. You got the whole rundown (hopefully) from your optician and from your optometrist on how to properly take care of your lenses and what could happen if you don't. Well, we realize this conversation might have been a long time for a lot of people, and due to their responses to our questions at their exams, they have probably faltered a little to a lot from their care regimine with their contacts, so here is a brush-up.

Keeping to your Schedule

• All parts of our body except for our eyes receive oxygen through blood. Our eyes on the other-hand get their oxygen through their surfaces. That is why we need to pay close attention to how often we are replacing our contacts since contacts block their oxygen flow. Each brand of contact lens has a specific amount of time you can wear them so your eyes can breathe comfortably the entire time you have the lens. This is determined by your optometrist and should be adhered to strictly to keep your eyes comfortable.
• Sleeping in contacts likewise reduces the amount of oxygen to your eyes. Therefore it is only recommended to sleep in contacts that your doctor allows you to. Even if you do sleep in your contacts it is recommended to take them out for one night a week to give your eyes a break.
• Helpful ways to remember are to take them out the same night every week, set a reminder in your phone, or go to accuminder.com to set up a recurring text or email to remind you when you need to take them out. You can customize the Accuminder for your specific regimine. I don't delete the Accuminder e-mail until I actually take them out.

A Clean Contact is a Happy Contact!

• Always wash your hands before handling your contacts. Another tip is that if your contact case is grungy on the outside and you wash your hands before opening it and then you open it, you will get the bacteria that was on the outside of the case in your eye! So a better option is to open you case and then wash your hands, or just keep a clean case on the outside and inside.
• Every time you put your contacts from your case to your eyes rinse them off with solution. This gets any debris off your contact before it goes in your eyes. Also, rub your contacts before putting them in your case. Always rub them in a cross design and not in a circle. Rubbing in a circle is more likely to cause tearing and ripping.
• Once you have your contacts in your eyes make sure to rinse your case with either solution or tap water and leave the caps off. This way it can be free of debris and it can air dry. Your contact lens case is similar to tupperware. It's beautiful in the beginning, but after a comple of months no matter what you do you can not get it clean. This is why a new case is definitely recommended every three months. All that buildup is bacteria that can eventually get in your eye and cause an infection.

Solution is the Solution

Not all solutions are treated the same. In our office we recommend Opti-Free Pure Moist and/or Clear Care. The difference between Opti-Free Pure Moist and generic brands is all in the moisture particles. In Pure Moist the moisture particles are nice and small. This allows them to find snugly in the pores of your contacts and keep them moist longer. If the moisture particles are bigger than the pores in your contacts then they will slide off with every blink, and sooner rather than later will be gone and of not use.
Clear Care is a great solution for people who need a deeper clean for their contacts. Make sure to read the instructions on the box very carefully. It is dangerous to your eye to use clear care solution as if it were a regular solution.

Yikes!

If you are allowing your eyes getting irritated to be a reminder to change your contacts you are waiting until the damage is done before you change them instead of preventing the damage in the first place. If you follow the above rules and tips you will be much more likely to be as happy with your contacts as you could possibly be and we won't see you in our office with an infection!



Let's get back on track!

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Anti-Reflective: Is it Worth it?

Who Should Get Anti-Reflective on their Lenses?

We recommend that everybody gets anti-reflective on their lenses including children and people who do not wear their glasses often. What anti-reflective does is enable us to warranty your lenses for two years to be replaced as many times necessary in that time. For a lot of people this is enough of a reason to get it.

What are the Other Benefits of Anti-Reflective?

Anti-reflective has many benefits. If you have children the benefits we would highlight would be the two year warranty against scratching, the 99% reduction in glare the bounces off white surfaces or reflective surfaces such as paper, white boards, windshields or water, the UV protection, the smudge reduction, and the overall reduction of eye strain due to glare.

If you are a young adult we would point out the reduction in the size of halos around lights at night especially while driving, the UV protection, the reduction of eye strain while on the computer for extended periods, the scratch resistence, and the two year warranty.
If you are an adult who is in bifocals we would recommend it for all of the reasons listed above and it has a great benefit of letting more light into your eyes. As we age it takes more light to see in low-light situations, such as reading a menu in a dimmly lit restaurant. What anti-reflective does is reduce the amount of glare getting into your eyes and therefore increase the amount of true light enabling us to see better in these darker environments.

What to ask when Ordering your Glasses?

When ordering glasses your optician and/or optometrist should explain the benefits of anti-reflective and if they do not you can still ask. You want to make sure they sell a product they believe in, if not you might end up with a poor quality anti-reflective that will peel and craze and will annoy you more in the end than if you hadn't had anything in the first place. It's OK to ask your optician what brand of anti-reflective they use and to research it ahead of time. You want to know what you are spending your money on. Not all places that sell anti-reflective offer a warranty so be careful to ask about that too.
In my personal experience, the first place I worked at sold a horrible quality anti-reflective. We were kept in the dark about what brand it was and could not even tell patients if they asked, and couldn't have even if we wanted to. We were pushed to sell it, but hesitated to since it was such poor quality and it was not warrantied, probably because it peeled and scratched so easily. What we sell at Clarity Eye Care are all Crizal products. These products have worked out great in my opinion and I really do recommend them for everybody.

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What to Think about when Choosing Glasses Frames

Whether you are in your 40's and getting your first pair of glasses as bifocals, getting your first distance pair as an adult or getting glasses for the first time for your child, picking out glasses can be a daunting task. Depending on where you go, you may or may not have an optician who is assisting you and giving you helpful advice. I have compiled some helpful information from an opticians point-of-view to assist you in your next frame choosing adventure.

What are we opticians looking for?

You might wonder what we are thinking while we are eyeing you in your potentially new frames. It is slightly more involved than you might imagine.

Does the color compliment your skin and hair color?

Of course it is important that the frame looks good on you and if you wear it as your primary form of vision correction in place of contacts then you probably want it to go with almost every outfit. What I recommend is making sure it compliments your skin and hair color. Generally people know what colors they look good in and what colors they do not look good in. They then use this information to choose their clothing. If this is done than choosing a frame along the same lines will help guarantee that your new frames go with most of your wardrobe.

Does the style match your personality?

Just like any other accessory or article of clothing, frames should match your personality. Wouldn't it be nice if people said "Those frames are so you!" when they saw your new frames. You have to think are you classic? Are you trendy? Are you retro? Are you minimalistic? Do you want to stand out? Do you want to blend in with the crowd?

Does the style match your needs?

• If you are buying bifocals the lens needs to be large enough to fit your near, distance, and sometimes intermediate ranges of vision comfortably. Generally we recommend at least 10 mm from your bottom eyelid to the bottom of the frame for lined bifocals. For no-line bifocals every type of lens has a different minimum measuring height. The lowest I have seen and used is 14 mm from the center of your pupil to the bottom of the frame.
• The frame should fit the width of your face and be a hair smaller. The hinges should not be strained as the temples go around the sides of your head and similarly they should not be wider than your face. This is sometimes tricky for children. We want a frame that fits comfortably now, but also has some room for growth.
• The temples should go comfortably over your ears without going over too far. If they go over too far they would have to be turned down so far you might look like a child wearing an adults frame. This is especially important when choosing frames for children. There is a large range in sizes for children's frames and it is most important to get one that fits well. 
• If you have a high prescription your lenses will be thicker and you probably already know this. To help counteract the thickness I recommend a smaller rounder lens shape on your frame. Also, there are thinner and lighter weight lenses that could be used. Also, depending on the strength of your prescription I may not recommend a frame that exposes the bottom edge of your lens (semi-rimless) or one that exposes the entire edge of the lenses (drill-mount).
• Do you have a small nose? If you do, in most cases a plastic frame will not stay in place. The best option would be a metal frame with moveable nosepads. There are a few frames out there that are plastic and also have moveable nosepads.

**So just remember does the shape and color fit your face?
**Do these frames match your personality?
**What are your needs? Does this frame meet them?

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