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Optometrists require much more than their training and experience — because beyond this what they really are given to wish for foremost is sure to be specialist equipment to help get answers as accurately as they possibly can. We’ll examine three necessary items now: concentrating on assessment, the comfort of your patients, and storage, and the things to bear in mind when shopping for each: whether they’re used, new, remanufactured or simply refurbished.

Employed to take intraocular pressure, tonometers come in several different styles including non-contact, applanation, dynamic contour, pocket, and handheld disposable models. Depending upon your preference you may go with only one style or opt for an assortment of varying models. Just make sure that the tonometers you use are top notch quality. This is due to the fact that accuracy and ease of use with this kind of opthalmology equipment produces a major difference in diagnosis.

You don’t merely need a chair capable of keeping your patients where you want them — you need one that can also hold them in comfort for however long the appointment takes. Any choice you make on examination chairs must consider both positioning and comfort: the best chairs can assist the smallest and largest patients alike in reaching the right position. Your optometry equipment must be safely stored, and your best plan would be to store it in a place offering easy access when desired. Normally this necessitates a collection of treatment cabinets with certain key characteristics; movable shelving, leveling glides for unsteady flooring, and so on and so forth. Such cabinets can easily be relocated to any part within your practice which currently needs what they contain and to hold the equipment you’ll discover you employ. Make sure to purchase a cabinet which won’t be too big to position easily.

Treatment cabinets, exam chairs, and tonometers are just three of the pieces of ophthalmic equipment which can affect how well you are able to do your job and to what degree of efficiency. Be certain of your precise needs — hint: make a list! — before beginning ordering equipment. Inferior gear will only stump you; whereas, by the same token, the easier to handle and the more precise your tools, the better you should do in your practice. Indeed, you’ll be amazed at how downright simple the right equipment can make your practice…

So, as you will no doubt understand, the decisions you make in terms of your equipment can have a sizeable effect on how you perform in your professional role in general, and, last not least, on the development of your practice.