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Careful Handling GP Lenses

[caption id="attachment_107" align="alignright" width="150" caption="GP lens with scratches and deposits"]GP lens with scratches and deposits[/caption]Percentage-wise, I don’t have a lot of patients wearing GP lenses, but for those of you that do, please be careful how you handle them.  Josh, from Valley Contax, a lab that make GP lenses, says this:

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Changes in Utah CHIP

The state of Utah rebid the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), so effective July 1, 2010 I will no longer be able to accept any form of CHIP. Utah chose the insurance companies of SelectHealth and Molina to administrate CHIP in Utah for the next five years, and I am not a contract provider with either of them.

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“What drop can I buy so this redness in my eye goes away?”

This is a question that we get sometimes from people that happen to pass by the optical. The truth is, there is no way of knowing unless we do an actual paid exam. Why? Because red eyes can be caused from all sorts of different conditions. Not even your personal physician can really know without performing

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Myopia Control Update

Myopia control has recently been in the news, and now even ophthalmology studies confirm that bifocals can slow down myopia progression. Eye Doc News reports that:

A good study in Archives demonstrates that executive bifocals

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Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a very happy new year. As I mentioned before, this year my fees had to rise since my costs are going up. I now have to bill more insurances, which requires more time and money.

To offset your increased cost, I’ve changed one fee policy. From now on when dilation is needed as part of your eye exam, there is no extra charge for

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Myopia in the News

Myopia (nearsightedness) has been in the news lately thanks to a new study showing that it has increased in our society from 1971 compared to 2004.

Another doctor wrote an excellent piece about what this could mean for you or your kids, so instead of me writing something similar, just click to read what Dr. Nathan Bonilla-Warford wrote.

By the way, I have experience with all

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End of the Year Exam Savings!

FYI, due to a variety of reasons, my exam fee will increase by $5 effective January 1, 2010. What that means for you is, why not give yourself or a family member the gift of an eye exam during December? Get it while it’s still the same price it has been at since April 2007!

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Hot Tubs and Contact Lenses

It is important while swimming in a pool or relaxing in a hot tub that you remove your contacts. It doesn’t matter to me if you are in extended wear, daily wear, or daily disposable. [caption id="attachment_40" align="alignright" width="550" caption="Don't wear contacts in a hot tub!"]Don't wear contacts in a hot tub![/caption]
Take out the contacts in the pool or hot tub because

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Eye Infections and the Economy

With all the hope and change in our economy lately, I’ve actually seen an increase in eye infections. Apparently, when money is short, people wear their contact lenses longer than they are supposed to. Typically, a contact lens is either manufactured to be a 2 week or a 4 week disposable lens. Please follow the recommended replacement schedule for your lens, otherwise, you will be at much more risk of

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Back to School 2009

Your North Logan Walmart Vision Center has already started their Back-to-School specials. Kids lenses start at just $29. A well worth it upgrade to anti-reflective (no-glare) lenses is just $48. Select frames start at just $9, and don’t forget they have a huge selection that your student son or daughter is sure to like.

They are also sponsoring a coloring contest and the winner will be awarded a

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