Will Form 8655 Compensation 2024

Have you ever wondered why it is that when you order a free form or a digital lens, you send the lab your prescription and then three days later you get back a different lens? The difference between the order you sent in and the order you got back is that the lens has now been compensated. - What does it mean for the lab to compensate the lens? It means that they use the full computing power of their digital surfacing equipment to create a lens that best matches the prescription written in the as-worn position. - Let's dig into this a bit more and find out exactly what it means. First, we're talking about lens design here, which is super important. We're not designing the prescription, we're designing the lens. We're not changing the prescription or overriding anything. We're simply designing the lens to fill the prescription in the most accurate way. - In optical dispensing up until around 25 years ago, there wasn't much consideration for things like vertex depth or distance wrapped and tilt. - Let's talk about where these things come into play. When you go from perfect numbers to some weird numbers that you can't read, that's when the phoropter comes in. - The phoropter is the tool that a doctor or practitioner uses. They put it in front of your face, dial and switch, throw levers, and you look at the big "A" and the little "E" while they make adjustments. - The phoropter has to be the same everywhere the doctor goes. Different doctors use different lenses, but within a store, the phoropter has to be a standard. It cannot have a lot of movable parts, otherwise, chaos would ensue. - If you think about the phoropter sitting in front of someone's...