A Year 3 girl sat in my chair last term and read the letter chart beautifully with both eyes open. Then I covered her left eye, and she couldn’t get past the second line. She’d been getting by on one good eye for who knows how long, and nobody in her family had any idea.
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A mum came in a few weeks ago with her ten-year-old, still in his swim bag from training. He’s in the pool three mornings a week before school, and between the goggles fogging over his glasses and his contacts drying out halfway through a session, mornings had become a real source of stress for both
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A dad came in last week holding his own glasses in one hand and his six-year-old’s hand in the other. Before I’d even opened her file he asked, “Is she going to end up like me?” His prescription was strong, minus seven in both eyes, and he’d worn glasses since he was eight. It’s one
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A mum brought her eight-year-old in last week, school bag still on his back, and asked if there’s “something newer” than the MiyoSmart glasses he’s been wearing for the past year. She’d seen a headline about a lens that stops myopia rather than just slowing it down. Fair question. I’ve had a handful of parents
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A patient sat down in the chair a few weeks ago, glanced across at the frame display, and asked me with a slightly nervous laugh, “So how hard are you going to push me to buy new glasses today?” She’d just read the news about optometry chains and their sales quotas, and she wanted to
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A patient came in last year holding their glasses together with a rubber band. The hinge had cracked, a tiny screw had gone missing, and the frame had slowly given up the fight over about three months. When I showed them a pair of ic! berlin frames, the first thing they asked was: “Where are
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A patient sat down in my chair last month with two boxes in her hand, one daily and one monthly, and asked me straight out which was better. Someone had told her dailies were “healthier” and monthlies were “cheaper,” and she wanted to know if either of those things was actually true. The honest
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A lot of parents come to us having already done their research. They know orthokeratology means no glasses during the day, they’ve read about the myopia control benefits, and they’re seriously considering it. Then comes the question we hear in almost every consultation: “So what’s the cost?” It’s completely fair to ask — but
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“My son keeps squinting when he looks at the board — is that just bad eyesight, or is there something we can do about it?” That question comes up in our consulting room more than almost any other. And it’s a really important one, because there’s a big difference between simply correcting your child’s vision
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