Gulden’s Blur Tolerance Tester Swiftly and Easily Helps Increase the Likelihood of Patient Satisfaction with Monovision Correction

ELKINS PARK, PA – Gulden’s handheld Siepser Blur Tolerance Tester can greatly assist eye-care professionals in preoperatively screening and evaluating a patient’s tolerance to different levels of monovision. As eye-care professionals know, completely eliminating the need for eyeglasses is a sought after benefit of cataract and refractive surgery for presbyopic patients. With the popularity of multifocal and accommodating intraocular lenses, Gulden’s Blur Tolerance Tester saves time and makes testing convenient by combining the ability to test for distance, near blur tolerance and reading abilities with different amounts of monovision.

Practitioners accustomed to using a selection of loose lenses, which can get scattered in the examining room, will appreciate the convenience and professional appearance of the patient-friendly Gulden instrument.

This handheld tester is simple to use, transportable from one examining area to another, and its straight-forward protocol makes it extremely effective for use by the professional staff and technicians in the office to determine how successful monovision will be for a patient.

The first step in the testing procedure is to determine which eye is the patient’s dominant eye – easily accomplished with Gulden’s Eye Dominance Tester. Once the dominant eye is established, the built-in occluder for the dominant eye is opened and the rotating low-add lenses disk, positioned in front of the non-dominant eye, is used to dial in the amount of correction the patient needs – either 0.75, 1.00 or 1.25 to read Jaeger 2 comfortably. With the patient looking in the distance with the dominant eye, and with the lowest level of add that a patient can tolerate dialed in, the patient will not realize that they are “blurred” in front of their non-dominant eye. The effect, termed “summation,” relates to the ability of the mind and eyes to work together to additively see objects that with one eye alone would appear blurred. By measuring and using this effect with the Siepser Blur Tolerance Tester, the eye-care professional can identify excellent candidates for CK and LASIK and determine the lowest level of monovision correction that will be effective, increasing the likelihood of patient satisfaction.

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For more information, contact Gulden Ophthalmics, 225 Cadwalader Avenue, Elkins Park, PA 19027-2020
Tel 215-884-8105
Fax 215-884-0418

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