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New Office Space & Look
As of March 2008, we now have two suites in the Edmonds Professional Center. Our existing suite number changed from 205 to 200, and our new medical/surgical suite directly across the hall is suite number 208.
Our repainting project in Suite 200 is done! Come in and see our new calming and 'easy on the eyes' colors. Let us know what you think.
New Technology
Marco EPIC-2100 Digital Refraction System :
The EPIC-2100 has the capability of allowing us to make an immediate comparison between your current refractive error, your old prescription, and your new prescription. The end result is a very precise diagnosis of your vision. Best of all, this technology allows our doctors to focus on you, discussing all of your eye care concerns, needs, and wants.
PreView PHP (Preferential Hyperacuity Primetry):
The PreView PHP is a visual field analyzer designed specifically for early detection and monitoring of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). PreView PHP technology provides an unsurpassed level of sensitivity and specificity for early detection of Choroidal Neovascularization (CNV) caused by the progression of early and intermediate AMD.
The PreView PHP identifies CNV lesions when they are very small and often before the patient notices any symptoms. Since early detection is crucial to successful treatment outcomes, frequent testing with the PreView PHP provides an improved way to monitor AMD patients who are at risk for the development of CNV.
PHP testing has rapid testing times of approximately 5 minutes per eye, with maximum patient comfort, and a non-invasive simple touch screen operation, and automatic analysis of test results.
This technology is yet another of the example of the level of care you will come to expect from Edmonds Eyecare Associates.
New Products:
New Contact Lenses:
SynergEyes
The revolutionary SynergEyes hybrid contact lens with its rigid center and soft lens skirt allows you to have the best of both worlds - crisp, clear vision of a rigid lens, and all-day comfort of a soft lens.
- SynergEyes A - for patients with hyperopia and myopia, with and without astigmatism
- SynergEyes KC and ClearKone - for patients with keratoconus
- SynergEyes Multifocal - for patients with presbyopia
- SynergEyes PS - for patients with refractive errors following corneal surgery and trauma
Acuvue Oasys for Astigmatism, and Acuvue Oasys Bifocal
- Accelerated Stabilization Design
- The next generation of silicone hydrogel, senofilcon A
- Higher volume of wetting agent
- Ultrasmooth, soft lens surface, especially suited to dry, challenging environments
- 98% of oxygen available to eye
- Class 1 UV blockinga
- Visibility tint
- Packaged 6 lenses per box
New Eyewear:
Frames:
Oga - www.prodesigndenmark.com
Clean Danish design is the basis of our products but we always add a twist of something surprising – something unexpected. We aim to balance classic and clean with bold and bright to continuously keep classic styles updated. The most important thing is always to create eyewear that dresses the face. The frame and the face must interact to obtain a beautiful and harmonic look. We never strive for creating a design object that demands all the attention but rather a piece of eyewear that completes and enhances the lines of the face
- www.wileyx.com
Switch - www.switchvision.com
The world’s first eyewear with a Magnetic Interchange Lens System™ - for unparalleled convenience, speed and ease of use: an idea born of necessity.
The inventors of Switch demanded better sunwear options. Traditional fixed lens sunglasses work well in some light conditions, but not others. Mechanical interchange lens systems are clumsy and can be difficult to use. Contact lens wearers need plano sunglasses some days and Rx suns on others. Between carrying
around multiple, bulky sunglasses, and pulling and prying mechanical interchange lenses in and out, we felt there had to be a better way. Then it came to us: "Magnets!"
Check out the website for the full line of sunglasses.
Lenses:
Shamir Autograph II and Element:
Freeform is a new word in the industry standing for personalized optics. Each Shamir Autograph lens is a custom-made personalized lens created to the highest level of optical accuracy by combining each patient's unique measures and 'Peronalized Freeform Technology'. Shamir Autograph's patented state-of-the-art back surface design provides 20 percent wider fields of vision in all zones by bringing the design closer to the eye. For more information, please visit www.shamirlens.com.
Crizal Avance Anti-Reflective Coating:
Introducing the NEW Crizal Avancé™ with Scotchgard™ Protector lenses -
the AR lenses made to stay clean.
Crizal®, the #1 AR brand for Eye Care Professionals, and Scotchgard Protector, the #1 consumer brand in protection, have joined forces to give you the ultimate in cleanability and protection. Crizal Avancé with Scotchgard Protector lenses repel stains, dirt and smudges better than any other, making them the easiest to clean. And, while many AR lenses offer an easy-to-clean surface when new, the effectiveness of this feature deteriorates over time, leaving the lenses difficult to clean. Independent Lab tests prove Crizal Avancé with Scotchgard Protector lenses start out the easiest to clean and stay that way over the life of the prescription. For more information, please visit www.Crizal.com.
Crizal lenses: The Industry Standard
Since the introduction of the first Crizal lenses in 1997, Crizal Anti-Reflective (AR) lenses set the industry standard in aesthetics and performance. Crizal lenses are specially designed using revolutionary integrated methods that combine anti-glare properties with industry-leading, double-sided scratch resistance. This same technology has been applied to sunwear with Crizal Sun, the first anti-reflective designed specifically for sunwear lenses. With Crizal Sun™, your sunwear lenses virtually eliminate discomforting backside glare and eyestrain for year-round outdoor protection. For more information, visit www.CrizalSun.com.
Definity:
DEFINITY™ progressive lenses are the only PAL that utilizes DUAL ADD® Technology, a patented, dual-surface, offset design which provides several distinct optical advantages: a wider intermediate zone, the least amount of peripheral distortion of any PAL and a unique zone of correction called GROUND VIEW ADVANTAGE™.
GROUND VIEW ADVANTAGE features a reduction in power which minimizes distortion and flattens the field of vision, giving wearers greater clarity when looking down.
Another significant benefit of DUAL ADD and GROUND VIEW ADVANTAGE is that these advantages become more pronounced as add power increases. As a result, DEFINITY remains the right solution for presbyopes as they age.
DEFINITY is the perfect lens for the active lifestyles of today’s presbyopes. With the superior intermediate vision, DEFINITY makes computer use, driving or any other everyday activity more comfortable. With clearer vision when looking down, DEFINITY makes going up and down stairs, playing golf or tennis, or navigating uneven surfaces easier.
To find out more information about DEFINITY, please visit www.DEFINITY.com.
DriveWear – www.drivewearlens.com, and see Transitions at
www.en-us.transitions.com
In the past, clear eyewear was enough. In bright light conditions, polarized sunwear was enough. This is no longer true. Today our lives are strongly influenced by the automobile, which has changed the way we experience the outdoors. We need a third category of lenses in our modern, automobile-centered world. Drivewear.
Drivewear lenses are capable of sensing and reacting to varying light conditions both outside and behind the windshield of the car. From bright sunlight accompanied by intense, blinding glare, to overcast inclement conditions, Drivewear lenses provide the wearer with the appropriate visual solution.
Drivewear lenses provide glare protection through polarization and enhance and protect vision through photochromics which respond to both visible and UV light. By combining the strengths of two of the most important technologies in eyewear today we have developed the lens of tomorrow, Drivewear.
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