Picking off 20/10 letters on the Snellen chart has become commonplace with Biometric lenses. However, we recently broke the 20/10 barrier with a female student. Without lenses her aberrations are off the charts: LASIK over extremely large pupils, and a suspected case of DLK with a large amount of irregular astigmatism in one eye. She originally sought me out because of an inability to correct her more problematic eye to better than 20/30 with any lens. With Biometric lenses, her vision was measured at 20/7 in the better eye and 20/8 in the more problematic eye. I asked her what it was like to be a “medical curiosity.” In her own words:
“. . . I went to my first **** game this week when they were playing against the Spurs. This week I was at the VERY top of the stadium and the contacts were WONDERFUL! I could see far better than my classmates so we started playing games among ourselves to see who could pick out eye colors from people in the crowd. That’s what happens when you get a group of optometry students together
The lenses are doing extremely well. I love them and I can’t thank you enough! My life is so much easier with them, especially during school.”
Needless to say, her low light vision problems are completely resolved with her lenses.