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From: korfhage@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: contact lenses : doctor vs dispenseries
Message-ID: <2078@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 15:14:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 15:14:58 1984
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   As it is time to update my glasses prescription, I am also considering
getting some contacts.  The question then arises where to get them, and there
is a continuum of possibilities.

   At one end, I have visited a hot-shot contact lens doctor - consultant to
lens manufacturers, expert in the field, etc.  Without doubt, he knows his
stuff and going to him would be quite safe.  And at $600, quite expensive -
he's in demand and he knows it.

   At the other end of the spectrum, there are the dispenseries. They sell
lenses for much less than the doctor (~$200), and the quality of the doctors
at such places is unknown.

   In picking a place to go, the immediate reaction is go to the best, because
these are your eyes that your fiddling with and they're hard to replace.  And
yet the $400 difference is considerable for a student like myself, and I have
yet to find anyone who has been harmed by a dispensery.  I have even been
given a number of recommendations, and cannot find any evidence that a good
dispensery would endanger my eyes.

   So it all comes down to a search for Truth :

      Is it dangerous for someone with normal (albeit nearsighted),
   healthy eyes, who does not require any special lenses, to get the
   lenses from a good dispensery rather than a special doctor?

Common wisdom has it that the answer is yes, but I cannot find any supporting
evidence. Can anyone out there provide evidence one way or the other?

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   Willard Korfhage

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   Willard Korfhage

   ARPA : korfhage@ucla-ats
   UUCP : {ucbvax,ihnp4,randvax,trwrb!trwspp,ism780}!ucla-cs!korfhage