Delina Patel, OD
Optometrist: Delina Patel, O.D.
Practice: Pearle Vision Bunker Hill
Patient: 42 YO Female
Condition: Mild Astigmatism

Presentation:
Patient was unhappy with her current soft lenses and did not want to wear RGPs.

Ocular History:
Patient was previously fit elsewhere, unhappy with her soft lenses. Her chief complaints were poor vision, glare, discomfort, and dryness.

Prescribed lenses:
MetroSoft Max (Polymacon)

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Outcome:
Patient was happy. “These feel great!”
BCVA: 20/20 OU

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Keratoconus, intacs, crosslinking, ICO

Practice: Illinois College of Optometry
Patient: 52 YO Female
Condition: Keratoconus, s/p intacs OD

Presentation:
Patient was diagnosed with keratoconus over 20 years prior. She had intacs and corneal cross linking OD. Her goal was to stay in soft contact lenses if possible.

Ocular History:
Keratoconus, intacs, corneal cross linking, ocular allergies

Prescribed Lenses:
Kerasoft IC STD
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Outcome:
20/20 OD
20/20-1 OS
Patient reports great vision and comfort all waking hours of day. She spends 8-10 hours per day on the computer and has no difficulties with lens wear.

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Are you looking to offer specialty contact lenses for patients who can’t achieve their best vision with glasses or daily contacts?

Metro Optics’ innovative portfolio enables eye care professionals to source high-quality custom contact lenses, ranging from mild prescriptions to high-cylinder patients, and even the most hard-to-fit eye conditions.

6 Steps to Success

Network: Spread the word about your services. Reach out to fellow physicians, other specialists, hospitals, and professionals locally and online. Get to know your business neighbors, ask if you can bring literature to their practice, and ask questions about their demographics. Talk to realtors, hair stylists, church members, pickleball league buddies, your child’s friends’ parents—everyone!
Staff Education: Educate your staff with the abundance of free resources on YouTube, the GPLI webinars, and Scleral Lens education Society. Empower staff by getting familiar with ocular conditions, lens modalities, and billing. Schedule lunch and learns with your local reps to learn more about each company and their lens designs. Register your account in the Physician Portal to access Insertion and Removal video tutorials.
Questionnaire: Ask your patients questions about their vision, comfort, dryness, and satisfaction with their current contacts. Often, patients won’t bring up issues unless prompted, assuming their vision is as good as it can be. The doctor can address their answers during the visit.
Patient Education: Offer educational resources for your patients, such as concise one-page handouts that outline the benefits of custom contact lenses. Including information on their options, the proper care systems, solutions and where to purchase them can enhance patient compliance and over all ocular health.
Leverage Your Labs: Don’t hesitate to ask your labs questions. They are a valuable resource with insights and expertise. Each lab may offer different perspectives on lens modalities, designs and strategy. Let technology do the heavy lifting! Send images to your consultants at info@metro-optics.com to optimize the fitting session.
Current content: Actively updating content on your website and social media profiles helps your ideal patient find your practice when they search online. If your website includes content that addresses their ocular condition, they will be more likely to schedule an appointment with you. Offer resources for them to connect with other people with their condition. For example https://nkcf.org for your Keratoconus patients.

When patients see that you genuinely care about providing the best possible vision rather than just settling for the status quo, they will trust and invest in you because you’ve invested in them. While some patients may be content with their current vision, others will be thrilled that you’ve given them a better option.

Education is powerful. By offering all available options to your patients, you enable them to make informed decisions, enhancing their overall experience and satisfaction.

Health, Happiness & Multifocal Lenses

Metro Optics custom multifocal lenses fill a niche commodity lenses can’t touch.

By using Metro Optics proven presbyopic lens designs, you will realize how simple and rewarding it is to fit custom multifocal contact lenses.

Metro Optics Multifocal Quick Reference:

Our design portfolio includes soft, corneal GP and scleral lens designs proven to enhance the vision of thousands of presbyopic patients:

MetroFocal – Center distance soft multifocal, normal cornea profile, up to 2.50D add power, available in toric parameters for patients with 0.75 to 8.00D cornea astigmatism – best suited for the mild to moderate presbyope who desires a soft lens. Empirically order lenses using manifest and keratometry readings. Available in Definitive 74% SiHy, 60 Dk which provides three times the oxygen to the cornea in comparison to other hydrogels (1).

Metro Progressive – Center distance corneal GP aspheric multifocal, normal cornea profile, up to 2.50D add power, rotation-free optics for patients with less than 2.75D astigmatism, available in back-toric and bi-toric for patients with over 3.00D corneal astigmatism – best suited for the mild-to-moderate presbyope who is a current GP wearer or desires the crispest vision possible in a multifocal design. Empirically order lenses using manifest and keratometry readings.

Metro SEG – Translating crescent bifocal with an aspheric intermediate zone, normal cornea profile, unlimited add power, available in back toric and bi-toric for patients with over 3.00D cornea astigmatism – best suited for the moderate to advanced presbyope who is a current GP wearer or desires the crispest distance and near vision possible. Empirically order lenses using manifest and keratometry readings.

InSight Scleral – Center distance multifocal scleral, normal to highly irregular cornea profiles, up to 3.00D add power, thin design maximizes Dk/t of the chosen lens material – best suited for the mild to moderate presbyope who needs a medically necessary lens for keratoconus, post-surgical ectasia or severe ocular surface disease. Diagnostic fitting is required with live virtual training available with a Metro Optics consultant.

An Infinitely Better Material for Corneal GP and Scleral Lenses

When it comes to quality, Metro Optics ensures all lenses are manufactured with the best materials available in the market. To provide your patients with the healthiest contact lens environment, it is recommended to choose a high dK/t lens material such as Optimum Infinite, which has a hyper oxygen permeability value of 180Dk and a high flexural modulus of 1341MPa, defying the high Dk/low flexural modulus convention (2). This material also has excellent surface wettability, which can be further enhanced through the addition of Tangible hydra-PEG coating to make Infinite the healthiest choice for your corneal GP and Scleral lens wearers.

Metro Cares About Your Practice

Other than manufacturing high quality custom lenses, Metro Optics also provides many benefits to ensure our customers have a profitable custom lens practice. We have always offered 90-day warranties on all lens designs, easy return policies, competitive pricing and expertise consultation to finalize fittings quickly. We will also continue to support our customers by extending warranties on fittings performed prior and during the rebuilding phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our website at metro-optics.com to learn more about our entire line of custom contact lenses.

PUBLISHED IN THE JUNE 2020 CONTACT LENS SPECTRUM ISSUE

References

Articles

MetroSoft Max Mild Astigmat

KeraSoft Lenses for Keratoconus, Intacs & Crosslinking

6 Steps to Successfully Incorporate Specialty Contact Lenses Into Your Practice

Metro Optics Multifocal Quick Reference

Health, Happiness & Multifocal Lenses

Metro Optics custom multifocal lenses fill a niche commodity lenses can’t touch.

Metro Optics Multifocal Quick Reference:

Evaluating and Dispensing a Corneal GP Lens

When to Fit a Corneal GP?

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