Who does this clinic help?
Approximately 4.4% of the population is color blind.
Patients are often called color blind but a better term is color deficient. 99% of people with a color problem have a color deficiency.
There is an eye disease call achromatopsia which is very rare, these people only see the world in black and white. These people will not be helped with our color vision clinic.
What symptoms does this clinic help treat?
Those that we can help will see colors more vibrant.
Children that are color deficient often confuse colors on board games and have difficulty learning colors in school.
Adults with color deficiency may have difficulty telling the difference between green and red on a stop light. Stop lights that are horizontal instead of vertical may cause great difficulty for a color deficient person and could be dangerous.
Who will benefit from this clinic?
1 in 12 men are color deficient
1 in 200 women are color deficient
There are three main types of color vision deficiency: protan, deutan, and tritan defects.
99% of all color deficient people are suffering from red-green color deficiency.
Red-green color blindness is a combination of red-blindness (protan defects) and green-blindness (deutan defects).
Severity of color blindness is usually divided into the following four categories: slightly, moderate, strong, and absolute.
Colored lenses or glasses can improve color discrimination but cannot give normal color vision.
“What color is this?” is the most annoying question you can ask your color deficient friend.
Many color deficient people have problems with matching clothes and buying ripe bananas.
Strongly color blind people might only be able to tell about 20 hues apart from each other, with normal color vision this number raises to more than 100 different hues.
Red-green color deficiency is a sex-linked hereditary condition.
If a woman is red-green color deficient, all her sons will also be color deficient
A father can’t pass his red-green color blindness on to his sons.
Color deficient people feel handicapped in everyday life, and almost nobody recognizes this.
To watch videos of people seeing vibrant color for the time, click on this link: https://enchroma.com/pages/video-feature
INTERNAL INFO FOR STAFF
Which doctors can have these clinics on their schedule? SLS, though availability is limited
Which office locations can we do these clinics? LC
Should this clinic be scheduled as a follow up with notes added? Or is there a specific appointment name staff can use? A person must have had a comprehensive examination in the last 6 months, the reason for this is that most patients will be children and their prescription is often changing rapidly. After they have had a comprehensive examination, they should be scheduled in our Color vision clinic. To schedule, select “NP Color” if the patient is a new patient to our practice, and make sure that we get their records for their last eye exam. If it’s an existing patient and they already had an eye exam with us, select “EP Color” as the appointment type. Very important: anytime you schedule a EP Color or NP Color appointment, please send a to-do to Faith (FEJ) so she can appropriately plan for the appointment.
How much time is needed for this appointment? 30 min
How should these clinics be billed?
The appointment is self pay, it is $ 40.00.
The glasses which are used to treat color deficiency is an additional fee for the patient. The fee for the eyewear depends on whether the patient needs prescription lenses on non prescriptive lenses. Vision benefits may not be used towards color deficiency eyewear at this time, but there is a BOGO 50% off on multiple pairs of eyewear that you can offer our patients.
The fee for the non prescription glasses is less in our office when compared to on line fees for these glasses. Also, we will be sure the patient gets the best non prescription glasses for their specific color problem, when ordered on line this is not always the case.
call to action:
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Click on the link below to take the Color Vision Quiz for 50 Hub points! Once your quiz has been submitted, please allow a few days for your Hub points to be added.
Do you or your loved ones think you may have color vision concerns? Contact Faith or Dr Stutler to schedule a complimentary color vision screening. That’s right, as an employee of Professional VisionCare, we are offering this service to you for free!