I have written before about fitting sets. Aren’t they amazing? My grandfather fit lenses, but he had to do it very differently from what we do today. Many of you may recall the days when lenses were annual and when fitting sets didn’t exist.
Now, like many things in our world, fitting sets exist in abundance—possibly excessive abundance. The paradox of choice tells us that having too many choices can cause just as much of a problem as having too few choices. When we have too many choices, we question the choice that we make.
This “choice situation” led me to a purging of my fitting sets several years ago, and it has been liberating. I closely looked at my fitting habits and asked: Why am I fitting this family of lenses? And, why are the other families of lenses either working or not working? What if I streamlined my patients into three families of lenses (i.e., sphere, toric, and multifocal)?
Doing this has helped our team, our practitioners, and our patients. We have become very comfortable with these lenses. Our team has less variability when it comes to restocking lenses. Additionally, our patients get put into the best lenses that are working for our clinic. When other lenses are needed (which does still happen), we simply order those lenses; usually, our distributor is able to have them at our office in one to two days.
I’d encourage you to consider a streamlined approach in your practice. Getting efficient is a relief. It makes everyone’s lives better.
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